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Gomez. Although several "opposition" candidates will take the field, none seems so likely to fire both the army and the populace in his support as does General Arnulfo R. Gomez, the Zone Commandant of the State of Vera Cruz, and virtually a local dictator there. Shrewd, he calls his followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Religious Situation | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Midnight noises awakened William E. Chapman, U. S. Consul at Puerto Mexico, in the State of Vera Cruz. Soon Consul Chapman, no coward, was tiptoeing downstairs with a dim lamp as his only guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Unmotivated Crime | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Lieutenant Noville, flight engineer of the America, left Cleveland at 16 to join the Navy and sail around the world. Bluejackets remember that it was not long before he became a mighty oarsman, football player, broad-jumping champion of the Navy. After helping to occupy Vera Cruz in 1912, he learned to fly, was assigned to the spectacular Esquadrille Candinana on the Italian front during the World War. He has long been a friend of Commander Byrd, who put him in charge of the Spitzbergen base during the North Pole flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Four Men in a Fog | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

That if Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth should run for Congress she would certainly win; that most women now in Congress owe their position to being widows or wives of onetime Congressmen, not to their own merits; that women in Washington "pull the strings of power"-all this said Miss Vera Bloom last week in Washington. Miss Bloom, daughter of Congressman Sol Bloom, Democrat of New York, spoke at the second world welfare conference of the Women's Universal Alliance. Miss Bloom also said: "Mrs. Coolidge is worth $1,000,000 a year to the Republican Party. Her grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Million | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...EUGENIO VERA Guayama, Porto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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