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Dates: during 1920-1929
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So long (20 years) has Juan Vicente Gomez been Dictator-President of Venezuela that when he positively and repeatedly refused to circumvent his country's constitution "just once more" and accept a fourth term (TIME, May 13), the Venezuelan Congress knew not what to do. Visions of impending revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Under the Rubber Tree | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Last week a creature named Dr. Freeland moved through Maryland wearing a white mask acutely reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan. But not one of the 40,000 people who were watching him, not Vice President Curtis, who once rode horses, nor Mrs. Gann, who had a good seat, nor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Turf | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

(At the birthday party) : "Look at that rinsed-out toad countin' his presents again! Just disgustful, that's what it is!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: National Figure | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Loans to Brokers. Since the spring of 1928, the Federal Reserve Board has been to reduce loans to brokers. These were last week about $1,500,000,000 than when the drive upon them Thus the drive obviously was fail Furthermore it was from the begin a lost cause. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Capital v. Credit | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Commodity Inflation. Always attacking, never merely defending, Mr. Simmons next proceeded to argue that to divert "the enormous masses of capital today invested in stock market loans'' into "commercial business" would "produce a huge rise in commodity prices, inflation of inventories, and an artificial business boom . . . which could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Capital v. Credit | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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