Word: venezuelans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venezuelan Government confiscated $22,500,000 worth of property and securities from the Gómez estate, but that still left $7,500,000 worth. Last week the Government guardedly announced that about 4,300 of the more meritorious claimants will be awarded shares in the remaining $7,500,000. First, what little of the estate is 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...
...Armstrong Perry, Harvard student from 1904 to 1907, didn't show up for the annual Washington Harvard Club dinner, but John H. Pratt '30, secretary, accepted his excuse. Perry was marooned in a Venezuelan jungle with a wrecked aeroplane and no food...
There it was discovered that the assaulter was no ordinary brawler but Manuel Oyon, a onetime Venezuelan judge. The assaulted was General Jorge Garcia, onetime warden of Caracas' infamous Rotunda prison where the late Dictator Juan Vicente ("El Benemerito") Gómez kept Manuel Oyon and many another political prisoner. "He used to torture me!" cried Manuel Oyon. "The mere admission that he served as warden of the Rotunda is sufficient proof," declared his lawyer. While the court tried to decide what to do with Manuel Oyon, who after his release from prison was deported by the present Venezuelan...
Spain, considering her size, has always represented the nadir of news value among European countries but it was only necessary for her to descend into the same sort of social disorder and barbaric cruelty as constitute my facts about Venezuelan political history to achieve front-page spreads in every newspaper...
Specifically Argentines, Cubans and Venezuelan males were tagged by Esquire's feminine investigator as grossly overrated: "They are not gallant in a practical way. They meet you at a bar for cocktails at five-thirty, make violent love to you-and then go home for dinner." Physically "they are not only short: they are thin, too, with narrow shoulders and wide hips: in other words-bell-bottomed." Nor can they hold their liquor: "All Latins have trouble with their livers and if they drink too much they get very sick." On puerile obscenity they thrive: "The simplest reference...