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Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette, who doesn't touch the stuff himself, followed an old Iowa tradition by blaming it all on "gambling and speculation." Quick as the flash of a powder train, the uproar spread to South America. The Brazilian government, alarmed by the angry murmuring in America del Norte, hurriedly invited four U.S. housewives to travel south, all expenses paid, to see for themselves the real cause of the trouble-scarcity caused by drought, frost and underplanting by Brazilian farmers. A spokesman from Colombia talked darkly of a plot by the "tea interests," and one from...
...dancing a month for life. "It's like a kind of insurance," he explained. "Dancing is like any other kind of activity - if you don't keep it up, you get rusty." A Gold Medal? At this point John fell under the spell of a dark, mustached Brazilian dance instructor named Chafic Sabino. "One day he asked me if I would like to see him dance. Well, a couple of turns around the floor with Miss Keene and my eyes nearly popped out of my head. He was wonderful. He kept on giving me little hints-told...
...then John's irate daddy, 76-year-old Industrialist John R. Winter, fired the persuasive Brazilian. According to John, Sabino forthwith threatened to "pump me full of hot lead," and made John write off all debts on the clothes, TV set and car, and on top of that had the gall to demand a $100-a-week salary for life...
...coffee shortage was complicated by another factor. In recent years, U.S. buyers have had little trouble buying up all they wanted of the Brazilian crop...
Brazil, said Prestes, is only a colony of the U.S. Even the U.S.-Brazil Joint Commission's plan for better roads and ports is just a trick for the U.S. to get war materials out of the country. Nationalists and others interested in building up a Brazilian economy free from yanqui rule should take heed, said Prestes, to these proposals: 1) annulment of all treaties with the U.S., 2) confiscation of all capital and enterprises belonging to "American monopolists," and 3) cancellation of Brazil's debt...