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Then there is Tomas, a big pot-bellied black fellow at headquarters, who is a sort of chief operator, or section chief. Officially Tomas belongs to the Avenida automatic exchange, quartered in the same building; but through seniority and an especially winning personality which he has, he really works his daylight shift in the public business office. Can't say how he spends his nights, but there's a night club next door. Tomas sometimes sits in the doorway to the Commercial office, facing the elevators; other times, he perches on the counter under the sign reading "Complaints...
Coffee 6 Cattle. It was supposedly for the honor of Rio Grande do Sul that in 1930 General Flores da Cunha's Gauchos rode tumultuously into Rio de Janeiro, hitched their horses to the obelisk on bosky Avenida Rio Branco, bottled old President Washington Luis up in jail and helped Getulio Vargas become President of Brazil. Washington Luis and President-elect Julio Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world...
...Minister to Canada. Besides all these there are a working staff from the State Department, the U. S. Ambassador to Argentina and the U. S. Minister to Bolivia. The entire delegation occupies two floors of Argentina's most fashionable hotel, the Alvear Palace, on the famous Avenida Alvear, a block from Avenida Callao. Many of the rooms have been converted into clattering clerical offices to handle the official doings of the group, whose direction rests chiefly with Secretary Hull and Assistant Sumner Welles...
Twenty-seven thousand Argentine school children, piping Brazilian patriotic airs in Portuguese, marched in one parade. President Vargas snipped a ribbon to open the newly widened Avenida Corrientes, driven at great expense through the middle of the business district. For eight city blocks it was roped off from traffic while 14 tango bands kept citizens dancing till dawn...
...roof of the imposing La Prensa building in Buenos Aires' wide Avenida de Mayo is a large siren. Its piercing screech, audible for miles, heralds the break of hot news. Long ago a city ordinance was passed forbidding use of the siren and the publishers rarely sound it nowadays. But when some world-shaking event takes place, La Prensa's horn shrills and a Prensa office boy trots downtown to pay the fine before its echo has died away...