Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...career has been that of a busy and successful lawyer adhering closely to the practice of his profession and rising by steady steps to a foremost place at the bar. He recently represented the Venezuelan government before the commission appointed by President Cleveland to determine the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana, and it is largely owing to his clear insight and unceasing industry that the boundary dispute has been so satisfactorily settled...
...written by Professor Wendell, for private performance in Boston. The play endeavors to set forth, somewhat in the manner of an Elizabethan chronicle history, the events which led to the failure of Sir Walter Ralegh's final effort to secure for England the possession of the country now called Venezuela. These are chiefly recorded in Ralegh's "Discovery of Guiana," and in his "Apology...
...810th regular meeting of the Natural History Society will be held in University 16 this evening at 7.30 p. m. The papers will be: Remarks on the natural history of certain little-explored regions: Northern Canada, Frank Russell; Australia, A. G. Mayer; Venezuela, W. H. Phelps. Shingles will be delivered to new members who have paid their dues...
...long as they last there will be strained relations between England and Turkey and the other powers. (1) Eastern question kept undecided. C. England already has her hands full. (1) Northern frontier of India. (2) China. (3) Egypt and the Soudan. (4) Cape Colony and the Transvaal. (5) Venezuela. D. The objection that decisive action on the part of England would involve war with one or several of the other powers does not old. (1) Armenian autonomy, as in Crete, would obviate this. E. England is under treaty obligation to protect the Armenians. Pub. Opin...
...instances of recent unavoidable difficulties, Conroy mentioned Samoa, Cuba, Hawall and Venezuela. He closed by declaring most emphatically that the United States is no longer isolated from the rest of the world, but is constantly in more or less danger...