Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That 7,287 persons should have filed suits up to last week claiming a share in the $30,000,000 estate of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez is natural enough. His country's big man for 27 years, he died aged 78 (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) probably more times a father, grandfather and great-grandfather than any man since Augustus the Strong...
...liquid or in cash will be divided. The rest of the $7,500,000 the Government will pay by issuing Venezuelan bonds against the actual property, for financial experts deemed it "most inadvisable to make payments other than in bonds, as to do so might cause inflation in Venezuela and raise the level of prices...
Included in the foreign representation are: Japan, Philippines, India, Turkey, Mexico, Bahama Islands, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Channel Islands, Ceylon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Siam, South Africa, Venezuela and Wales...
...planes, all new single-motored, 285-h. p. Stinson "Reliants," were romantically titled after Columbus' discovery ships- Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. With them as representative of Pan American Columbus Society went Havana Journalist Ruy de Lugo Vina. Gaily they took off. visited in turn the nearby Indies, Venezuela, Brazil, passed over Paraguay to Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru. Ecuador...
...running a special Cuban section in Hearst newspapers. Having sold the idea, Mr. De Besa adroitly sold the advertising space to Cuban interests, then collected and wrote a glowing account of Boss Machado & friends which appeared only in the Washington Herald. After similar activity on behalf of Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Santo Domingo, Mr. De Besa, flashing a setting of diamonds given him by dictators, slipped back into Washington as chief of a Dominican Republic News Bureau set up for him by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Molina Trujillo...