Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week a dark, ebullient man got off a train in Washington. Bubbling with energy and high spirits, he snapped his fingers at the rain coming down in sheets. Above his tan button shoes he wore a raincoat lined with rabbit fur. But His Excellency Oswaldo Aranha, new Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S., looked about at the sodden streets and buildings and exclaimed, "Maravilhoso...
Next fortnight she is scheduled to fly to Rio de Janeiro to be christened Brazilian Clipper by the wife of Brazil's President Vargas. Thereafter in Pan American's Miami-Rio-Buenos Aires service she will cut air travel time from seven days to five...
...expected, he got no votes from the Deputies of the rebellious coffee State of São Paulo, who voted for their own coffee candidate, Borges de Medeiros, and withdrew. Three days later Dr. Vargas rushed through his inauguration in five minutes. Only members of the diplomatic corps, Brazilian officials and their families were invited, but thousands swarmed outside Tiradentes Palace in the rain while President Vargas stood before the rostrum and gave his oath to uphold his new constitution for the next four years. Most novel provision of this 44-page opus compels each Minister of the Brazilian Government...
Because Revolutionist Vargas is a sturdy Roman Catholic, his new constitution forbids divorce and makes church marriages civilly valid. Because Brazil's toughest political problem is States' rights, it creates a Senate to deal with them. For the rest the new constitution requires a majority of Brazilian nationals on the directorates of Brazilian public utilities, sharply limits immigration, favors land squatters and gives women the vote...
...mouth of the Liao River. Contrary to all rules, four British officers were captured, three of them held for ransom for five and a half dreary months. To while away the time and keep track of the days, one of them kept a diary. Enthusiastically introduced by Peter Fleming (Brazilian Adventure}, Pirate Junk is a first-rate addition to what he calls "the literary photography of experience...