Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his conviction for violating Tennessee's "monkey law" and his $100 fine, young Scopes went to the University of Chicago on funds raised for him by sympathetic scientists. He specialized in biology and geology. He joined the Venezuela Gulf Oil Co., went deep into remote South American Oil fields, married a fellow employee last year. After a serious tropical illness he returned to Chicago to study for a Ph.D. William Jennings Bryan sleeps on a Virginia hillside overlooking the Potomac while Dayton has long since relapsed to sultry stagnation...
...Venezuela gnarled, 74-year-old General Juan Vicente Gomez is still IT. By a freak Constitutional amendment (passed at his behest) he is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is not responsible to the President of Venezuela. Presumably by General Gomez' order last week the Venezuelan Congress demanded, received and accepted by unanimous vote the resignation of President Juan Bautista Perez, elected only two years ago for a seven-year term...
...June reaped precious usufruct of its work-study plan. Cooperative arrangements between classroom and factory, office or field were maintained with difficulty through last year. But, exulted Antioch last week, "They were maintained." Antioch seniors who want jobs have them, even though one man has been cooking on a Venezuela oil tanker and another is barnstorming the U. S. with an autogiro...
Harold Elmer Anthony of the American Museum of Natural History is taking three airplanes to map the highlands between Mounts Duida and Roraima, Venezuela. His geologists think they will find gold in that district, perhaps diamonds...
...week's job was not the first the brothers had done for the Sinclair company. They put out the Stamper No. 3 fire on the outskirts of Oklahoma City two years ago (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Brother Myron has been summoned to blow out fires in Brazil, Argentina. Venezuela, Mexico, Rumania but either failed to arrive in time or, as in Rumania, was balked by red tape. Both are married, have children. When not snuffing wells, they run the M. M. Kinley Co. (air compressor operators, well surveyors...