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Foolhardy General José Rafael Gabaldon raised the flag of revolt against blue-spectacled General Gomez in the distant provinces of Lara, Trujillo, and Portuguesa with an army variously estimated at 50 and 500 men. Venezuela's old Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...
...speedily take advantage of any of an executive's weaknesses. President Machado brooks no political opposition and has logrolled Cuba's political parties to his own support. Political opponents are told to get out of Cuba. Hence the presence in the U. S. of Cubans like Dr. Rafael Itturalde, onetime Secretary of War, and Octavio Seigle, business exile (TIME, April 29). Insurrectos are promptly squelched...
...Cuban producers. The proposal to limit the free entry of Philippine sugar to 500,000 tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio Os-mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They had traveled 11,000 miles to enlist Secretary of State Stimson in a protest. The beet-sugar industry (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah) complains that it cannot meet competition from Cuba and the Philippines. To protect its market, it would raise the world sugar duty from...
TOMORROW NEVER COMES-Robert L. Duffus-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50) In one of those pleasant South American republics where blood is hot and daggers sharp, Latin temperament turns law clerk into general, army-sergeant into dictator, dictator into corpse. Rafael, the law April 29, 1929 clerk, happened to be "nephew" to the canon of the cathedral. That was powerfully to his advantage; but his friendship for Sergeant Domingo, ancient soldier-philosopher, was to more immediate purpose. For Rafael had had the misfortune to fall in love with Vitoria of the mellifluous eyes, Vitoria whom General Hernandez had marked...
Soon however the natives of San Rafael del Norte began to question the Lieutenant's motives. They charged him with the only thing of which a U. S. Marine is supposed to be ashamed-cowardice. They insinuated that "Big Feet" was keeping Señora Sandino in her job because he was afraid to fire her-afraid of her husband...