Word: brazilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three good weeks of work and parties in beauteous Buenos Aires, the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.) ended with 69 projects approved and this able summing up by a Brazilian delegate: "The United States at last has joined the Pan-American family! Now we can do something and we are going to do it. Watch for even more surprising results at subsequent Inter-American and Pan-American conferences. This is just a beginning...
...free, public lecture on the "Alexander Hamilton Rice Expedition to Brazilian Guyana," will be given by Professor Rice tomorrow evening (Tuesday, Dec. 15) at the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration, at 8:45 o'clock...
...that afternoon the second function of the day took place. Having motored back to Rio over muddy roads followed by the whole party of notables including the Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S. Oswaldo Aranha, who has a first-rate chance of being the next President of Brazil, President Roosevelt appeared before the Brazilian Congress. On the rostrum sat the President of the Brazilian Senate, flanked by the Chief Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court and the President of the Chamber of Deputies. Below them sat the U. S. President in a grey suit flanked by U. S. Ambassador Hugh...
Twelve times the assembly applauded heartily, then stood while he departed. While the great men of Brazil had an intermission to recover their emotional balance, President Roosevelt retired to the Renaissance mansion of his old friend, Tycoon Carlos Guinle. There Franklin Roosevelt unbent for Brazilian newshawks, charmed them by expressing the hope that President Vargas would visit...
Final function of the day was a dinner given by President Vargas at Itamaraty Palace for Rio's officialdom. There President Roosevelt warmed Brazilian hearts by declaring: "You have done much to help us in the United States in many ways in the past. We, I think, have done a little to help you, and may I suggest that you, with this great domain of many millions of square miles, of which such a large proportion is still unopen to human occupation, can learn much from the mistakes we have made in the United States...