Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paulo, Brazil...
...Ambassador to Brazil, succeeding Herschel Johnson: James S. (for Scott) Kemper, 66, Chicago insurance executive and onetime (1944-46) treasurer of the Republican National Committee.* Kemper, who climbed from a clerkship to be head of seven companies which together form the Kemper group, one of the world's largest casualty and fire insurance groups, is a bluff, bustling, self-made businessman. He has long been interested in Pan American amity, helped found the Inter-American Council of Commerce and Production, has been decorated by Brazil and Ecuador. Kemper belongs to the conservative wing of the G.O.P., did yeoman work...
...Apennines, 60 miles to the east of Naples. It is a small town of some 7,000 souls, and the land is poor and arid. So it has become the custom for many Bisaccesi to move elsewhere to earn their living: to Naples and to Rome, to Mexico and Brazil, and to the United States, where some 200 emigrants made their new homes in Richmond...
Lost Trails, Lost Cities, by Colonel P. H. Fawcett. Absorbing memoirs of the jungles and savannas of remotest Brazil, by an explorer who failed to return from his last expedition (TIME...
...reaffirm friendly relations with the U.S., Brazil's Senate finally voted...