Word: brazilianizing
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...Bank. When George and Helen returned from their Florida honey moon, Lydia was trying to remember that the mortgage was due on the old Walsh home. She sat at her desk by the window and wrote down, "Bank account: $68.03." The Brazilian bonds she had bought for $3,600 were now worth $313.64. She owed two quarters payment on the principal, plus $150 and interest: at least $750. She talked stiffly to the banker, whose bank had recently passed quietly into the hands of a Boston firm, to her new brother-in-law, who had spent more than he could...
...also stamps out any intimation that her characters are important people whose lives, even if they do not value them themselves, are of human significance. Readers may also feel that in emphasizing the faded Main Street malice of parts of Hackettston, Mrs. Janeway is buying some of the Brazilian bonds of contemporary fiction...
Said the President: "When the war is over, in a proper environment of peace and order, and with the proper guarantee of freedom of opinion, we will readjust the political structure of the nation by consulting the Brazilian people amply and definitively. We will choose by preference from working classes the necessary elements of national representation: employers, workers, shopkeepers, farmers-young people full of vigor and hope, capable of carrying out the task of progress...
...South Atlantic, Brazilian authorities reported eleven sinkings in recent days, took over a radio station suspected of guiding Nazi submarines to their victims. But the North Atlantic was once more the scene of the fiercest attacks, the worst losses...
Newspaperman José S. Maciel Filho, considered a Vargas mouthpiece, hinted at a longer-range reason: a big expansion of Federal power for postwar exploitation of Brazil's resources. Before the war ends, other Brazilian states may be "dismembered." Said Maciel Filho: "President Vargas is serenely reorganizing our structure. The creation of territories is . . . a preparation for . . . the [postwar] structure of Brazil...