Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...showdown between Spain and Brazil, on the one hand, and the Council of the League of Nations, on the other, has impended since the Spanish and Brazilian governments instructed their representatives on the Council to veto the admission of Germany to a permanent Council seat (TIME, March 29) unless there were simultaneously accorded to Spain and Brazil permanent instead of temporary seats...
...Council proceeded last week with its deliberations at Geneva (TIME, June 14), the Hispano-Brazilian position was crystallized by the authorities at Madrid and Rio de Janeiro into two "diplomatic affronts" to the League...
...Janeiro, Dr. Geraldo Kuhimann, Brazilian botanist, has found that the native sapusaia plant produces an oil of one degree greater optical axis than the best Indian chalmoogra oil, heretofore the chief hope of curing leprosy...
...Princesss Theatre Company of Madrid. One of the major entertainment aggregations of Spanish and Brazilian evenings burst into the huge Manhattan Opera House for a week of repertory. They are Maria Guerrero and Fernando Diaz de Mendoza with various assistants. The word "burst" is used advisedly. The Spaniards played with more explosive energy than any troupe of melodramatists that one may see in this inhibited country off the one-night stands. This, apparently, is what the Spanish crave, Raquel Meller to the contrary. Maria Guerrero had the most to do. She fulminated and she growled, stamped and tore the plays...
Santa Ysabel. Señor Rodrigo Octavio, the Brazilian President of the U. S.-Mexican Special Claims Commission, held with the support of the Mexican Commissioner, Fernando Gonzales Roa, that no indemnity shall be paid to the relatives of 15 U. S. mining operatives massacred in January, 1916, near Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, Mexico. Judge Ernest B. Perry, the U. S. Commissioner, being thus outvoted, rendered a dissenting minority opinion. The commission forthwith adjourned until September...