Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night this week Associated Press Photographer Herbert White was sound asleep on the little Dutch island of Aruba, just off the Venezuelan Coast. At 1:30 a.m. an explosion bowled him out of bed. Photographer White's routine assignment, covering a routine inspection trip by the U.S. Army's Lieut. General Frank Andrews, had turned into an eyewitness view of the first Axis shells to land on the soil of the Americas...
...books are better suited than this one (written at the request of the Venezuelan Government) to help North Americans to understand Latin Americans. Simon Bolivar freed almost a third of South America in the name of democracy. He was driven out as a dictator when he tried to give orderly government to the region he had freed. His was the pioneer vision of Latin-American unity and hemispheric solidarity. (He was never able to achieve either.) Both his stupendous successes and his stupendous failures shed light on much that Americans find strange in the problems of Latin-American democracy...
...earthquake made him a political leader. It came during the first Venezuelan revolt, and destroyed a quarter of the citizens of Caracas and their property in a few moments. In the main plaza, Bolivar found a priest, shouting: "Sodom and Gomorrha! To your knees! . . . God's arm has fallen on your heads in punishment!" Bolivar pushed the monk away, drew his sword and shouted: "Nature has joined forces with tyranny! She is trying to stand in our way. Forward! We will force her to obey...
Married. Comedian Milton Berle, 33; and Actress Joyce Mathews, 22; she for the second time; in Beverly Hills. Her first marriage, to Colonel Gonzalo Gómez, son of the late Venezuelan Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, lasted twelve weeks...
...hemisphere as well as for the U.S. The party was thrown by the Ambassador to the U.S. of the first allocatee-to-be: Venezuela. His guest list included State's Dean Acheson, Economic Defense Board's Assistant Director Colonel Royal B. Lord, and two big visiting Venezuelan buyers of supplies (Central Bank President J. M. Herrera Mendoza and Caracas Chamber of Commerce Vice President Andrés Boulton...