Word: barreto
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...Madrid someone threw a bomb into the parlor of the Portuguese Embassy. Ambassador Joao Carlos de Mello Barreto and his wife retreated hastily to the next room, waited with fingers in their ears till the bomb exploded, wrecking the furniture. Spain's President Niceto Alcala Zamora hurried round to express his deep est regrets...
...etat in Rio de Janeiro, contrary to many U. S. newspaper stories and headlines last week, was not featured by the resignation of venerable, white-bearded President Washington Luis. What happened was this: at 1 p. m. Federal General Tasso Fragoso and Federal General Jaoa de Deus Menna Barreto, both natives of Rio Grande do Sul, approached the presidential palace at the head of a body of officers, announced that they and virtually the whole body of federal officers in the capital had decided to take over the government as a military junta, "to prevent further bloodshed...