Word: brazilianizing
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...Brazil in 1930, he had often promised elections, but never held them. He destroyed old political parties, prevented new from forming. But the latent opposition has recently shown new strength. One reason was the U.S. presidential election, which the newspapers reported in detail, to the open applause of the Brazilian people...
That was what the amorphous União was apparently waiting for. It let the world know that it was watching for an old dodge: a sudden, fascist-style election sprung on the unprepared Brazilian people by the Dictator. It also let the world know that it had a presidential candidate in mind: popular Air General Eduardo Gomes, who was considered democratic-minded but had enough influence with the military to make his election stick...
...late King Alfonso), and first Spanish princess to be married in her native land since Spain went republican. The tall, mustachioed groom was the great-grandson of Dom Pedro II, second (and last) of Brazil's brief line of Portuguese emperors. When the second Dom Pedro abdicated the Brazilian throne in favor of a republic, his family lived in France until Brazil relented in 1920, welcomed home the house of Bragança. His great-grandson takes his royal status seriously, but does not expect to become an Emperor...
...Gordon, clearly wrong about the source of Brazil's silk, did not intend to yield an inch on prices. Freight, duty and exchange taxes would make the price of Brazilian stockings, which sell in Rio for the equivalent of $2.50 a pair, from $4 to $5.50 a pair in Canada. All that the price controller was prepared to allow Ottawa retailers was $1.25 to $1.95 a pair, the price of stockings of similar quality...
Canadian women would hang up no Brazilian silk stockings this Christmas...