Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks in office had given President João Café Filho the inside details he needed to judge Brazil's economic plight. Last week, in an emotion-choked broadcast over all the country's radio stations, he laid the somber facts on the line. Brazil is in a "dreadful crisis," and the public has to face it. Revelations, all dated from the regime of Getulio Vargas, whose suicide brought Café Filho to power...
...Dollar income is drastically down. "Instead of [normal] revenues between $70 and $100 million monthly . . . the Bank of Brazil got only $36 million in July and $29 million in August...
...hostess to the Brazilian press. Said she, demurely: "I'm happy to be here. I've been longing to see Rio all my life." Asked a reporter: "Were you drunk last night?" Replied Ava, sipping her third whisky: "No indeed. Never drink." A day later, she left Brazil...
...refugees from Brazil got a cold reception at the hands of New Amsterdam's peg-legged Governor Peter Stuyvesant. a cast-iron Calvinist who considered Judaism "an abominable religion." He wrote to the directors of the West India Company in Amsterdam, suggesting that Jews be banned. The company instructed the governor to let the Jews stay on the understanding that "the poor among them shall not become a burden to the Company or community, but be supported by their own nation...
When the Portuguese conquered the Dutch colony of Recife on the coast of Brazil in 1654, they gave the Jewish settlers the same terms as the Protestant Dutch: accept the Roman Catholic faith or get out. Some of the Recife Jews who chose to get out were (according to one account) captured by pirates on the high seas, then rescued by the French privateer St. Charles. In September...