Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews, and the U. S. announced that she would combine her former annual Austrian immigration quota with her German to admit 27,370 persons (who can support themselves) from Greater Germany next year. Almost sole note of encouragement came from eight Latin American nations: Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and the Dominican Republic (which nine months ago massacred 1,000 neighboring Haitians because they moved into her territory), offered to accept a limited number of refugees if they came as agricultural workers...
...author (Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), champion of Negro rights; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; in Wiscasset, Me. Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1916-30), he was also the first Negro to hold a consular post (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela); only Negro in the U. S. ever to command a naval detachment (Nicaragua 1912) ; first Negro baseball pitcher to throw a curve...
...buck Standard Oil. Deterding lost more than $4,000,000, but fought Standard to a standstill (in spite of the free lamps Standard gave away) and won a market in China. From then until the War he was busy grabbing up new properties in Mexico, Venezuela and California...
...ponderous as the official title of the one-man expedition it tells about-the Carnegie Institution's Expedition for Study of the Earth's Magnetic Behavior. A mixture of guidebook, adventure story, anthropological study, social & political commentary, covering a 2,000-mile trip through the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil, Journey to Manaos tells next to nothing about terrestrial magnetism. Author Hanson dutifully did the job he went to do, but he records more magnetic attractions above ground than underneath...
...trip. He was told of inland revolts, the murder of a governor, the blood thirst of Indians for a white man. But it was just talk. Author Hanson hardly realized he had been through savage country until he came out and heard the same scare stories all over again. Venezuela officials were touchy hysterics, but no worse than nuisances; the Indians were merely poor. He grew a beard, however, since without one, said other explorers, his trip would impress no one and he would never get his picture in the rotogravure sections at home...