Word: brasil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Jandyra Vargas, younger daughter of Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Vargas; to Ruy da Costa Gama, 25, apprentice pilot of Pan American Airways' Brazilian subsidiary, Panair do Brasil; in Rio de Janeiro...
...France followed a day later. The New Cabinet is considered "strong." Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco used to represent Brazil at League of Nations meetings, is the Brazilian diplomat best known in Europe. Minister of Finance Jose Maria Whitaker is a former President of the Banco do Brasil and of the Banco Commercial do Estado de Sao Paulo. Acts of the new Cabinet: 1) declared the Brazilian Congress retroactively dissolved on Oct. 3 last, the day the revolution began; 2) placed responsibility for payment of obligations incurred by the Washington Luis Government since Oct. 3 upon the officials...
Five minute arguments defending and opposing the Doctrine will be presented by Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., professor of Naval Science and Tactics, and C. F. Werman, of Brasil, respectively. At the close of these short addresses the discussion will be thrown open to all members of the Council J. J. de Stoop of Belgium, will be chairman for the evening...
Bigger than North America's 48 United States, the 20 Estados Unidos do Brasil are too colossal for comic-opera upsets, just right for majestic civil war. Each state has its own army. Each president [governor] of a state is a more or less swashbuckling stickler for "states' rights." In Rio de Janeiro, scene of no revolt last week, the Brazilian Congress met and quietly voted $12,000,000 to put down simultaneous revolutions in the three states of Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Geraes and Parahyba. With 120 ballots favoring and eight opposed, the Congress declared "state...
...Milhaud--"Saudades do Brasil" (suite of dances) Overture--Sorocaba--Corcovado--Laranjeiras--Tijuca...