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...invincible, fearless, determined, with a giant's strength, a philosopher's mentality. . . . The champion of every good, and pure, and noble, and holy and righteous cause. . . ." Sprinkled through its pages (and always over fair weather reports) was the legend "'Tis a Privilege to Live in Colorado." Bloodiest stories and pictures of corpses were sanctified by the watchword: "Crime Never Pays." On October 12, 1931 the Post's streamer read: CHRIS COLUMBUS DISCOVERS AMERICA...
...friendly fashion, though not as if nothing had happened. Brazilian bankers gathered in bright, glamorous Rio last week to count the monetary cost of Brazil's ''bloodiest civil war in South American history" (TIME...
After three months of marching and countermarching and a half-dozen major battles. Brazil's civil war ("bloodiest in South American History") ended last week. Rich, coffee-growing Sao Paulo lost its attempt to regain control of the Federal Government. General Bertholdo Klinger, No. 1 rebel, onetime chief of Rio de Janeiro police, laid down his arms. Colonel Herculaneo Carvalho headed a temporary military government for Sao Paulo state. No accurate casualty lists were published on either side. For Brazil as a whole the civil war has had one beneficial result: The blockade of the port of Santos boosted...
Brazil. On at least three fronts "the bloodiest civil war in South American history'' neared the end of its third month, ferociously fought by more than 125.000 Brazilians behind a nearly air-tight censorship...
...French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule. In the ambush and retreat to Ait Yacoub, 13 French were killed, 93 wounded, captured or missing. It was the bloodiest fight since red-bearded Abd-el-Krim surrendered...