Word: brazilianizing
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...hope of developing closer connections between the United States and Brazil, Maurice Stoinburg ''39 is circulating a petition for establishing a Brazilian Institute in New England with the official support of Dr. Hdefonso Falcao, Brazilian Consul in Boston...
...purpose of the school would be to teach Portuguese, and to stress the history, geography, art, literature, and economics of Brazil. Instruction would be free to qualified Harvard students, and the Brazilian government would support it financially...
...because in practice the Germans, to get foreign exchange, have ruthlessly resold in other markets the coffee and cocoa they got from Brazil by barter, depressing prices at the expense of Brazil's best cash crops. One quick effect of the deal was felt in Wall Street, where Brazilian 1941 8's jumped from...
...nation and potentially the greatest in reserves is Brazil. In recent years Brazil has become a commercial battleground between the U. S. and Nazi Germany, on which the stakes are trade and cultural supremacy. The U. S. might already have lost the war had it not been for a Brazilian campaign squabble in 1930. That fight ended in a revolutionary coup d'état by the two powerful leaders of the State of Rio Grande do Sul: dressy little Getulio Vargas and his backer and right-hand man, handsome, dashing Oswaldo Aranha. Vargas as President, Aranha as Ambassador...
...accord U. S. investors the same treatment as Brazilian investors-an important concession because of the Vargas Government's current trend toward economic nationalism...