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Seventeen diplomas were handed out between speeches. Had he not failed to appear, James Roosevelt would have got one "for his reply to the President of Brazil, thanking him for the decoration of the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross, fully earned because nobody knew what James Roosevelt said, not even those who understood Spanish."*Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings was honored "in anticipation of his first argument before a packed Supreme Court...
...Janeiro, Presidential spokesmen fastened on the word law, assured all concerned that not a shot would be fired. In Buenos Aires, where Getulio Vargas is a despised Brazilian upstart, the press fastened on the word autonomy, shrieked that Brazil was on the verge of bloody civil war. Upon the commotion then descended the iron Brazilian press censorship which is as thoroughgoing as any in the world. European and U. S. correspondents cabled as little as possible to their editors, judiciously deciding that civil commotion would have to become civil war in fact before it would be worth while to risk...
After over a year of exploration of in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, six months of which were too rainy to allow digging, the men located the 175,000,000 year old fossil bed in the red clay footbills of the Brazilian Platean. It is believed to be the most significant American deposit yet found of the fauna of the Triassic period, critical in the development of the ancestors of the dinosaurs and mamals...
...India rubber is called caoutchouc (pronounced coochook), an English word of Tupian (Brazilian) Indian origin. *Common stockholders received their last dividends...
...recruit in years is Bidú Sayáo, slim, slick and 30, who turned up in Manhattan last spring to solo with the Philharmonic-Symphony and was quickly snapped up by the opera. Her debut as Manon was a triumph of personality as well as art. The little Brazilian used her little voice so that every phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love so as not to ruin...