Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Spain will withdraw her withdrawal is considered certain, but the attitude of the Brazilian Government is still unclear...
Despatches from Brazil, last week, told that a British rubber syndicate is about to negotiate for a new plantation close to and competitive with that of Henry Ford. This move was hailed by the Brazilian press of Rio de Janeiro, last week...
However, a party of explorers from the American Museum of Natural History, who were back in Manhattan last week pallid from malaria, recently reached the top by following a ledge* that ran thinly up Mt. Roraima from the Brazilian side. Atop Mt. Roraima they found themselves on a remarkably flat tableland, 12 miles square, something like the flat land of Arizona through which the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River cuts...
...indeed insisted upon the ejection of two Negroes from a night place in Rome, as reported by Il Progresso (Manhattan daily). "Silly report!" replied the Mayor. In Rome, one Anton Bragaglia, proprietor of the night place, explained: "Mayor Walker was my distinguished guest that evening, I asked the Brazilians in question not to dance. They were very indignant and explained they were not Negroes but Creoles, and, moreover, French citizens, although Brazilian born, and artists. They were members of a French troupe then residing in Rome, they said. "I told this to Mayor Walker and he accepted the explanation...
...large proportion of exports to Brazil have to pay a "very solid rate of duty." It is therefore held that Brazil, in extending most-favored-nation treatment, is not obliged to admit an equivalent amount of U. S. goods free because the U. S. admits without duty most Brazilian commodities. French Thesis. The French viewpoint is exactly the opposite. As the U. S. admits all foreign goods under a general tariff schedule, and therefore extends equal treatment to all countries, the French hold that they, too, are entitled to force the U. S. to pay the duties imposed by their...