Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned his attention to Brazil. Japanese emigrants have been flocking to Brazil in late years. More than 150,000 of them are settled there on little farms, growing rice and mulberry trees, tapping rubber, raising coffee. In 1933, 23,152 entered the country. A bill is now before the Brazilian Congress to amend the Constitution, limiting annual Japanese immigration to 2% of the present Japanese population. Foreign Minister Hirota wrote thus to Acting Foreign Minister Felix de Barros Cavalcanti de Lacerda...
...Brazilian government . . . discriminates against Japanese immigrants, it will have a serious bearing and, at the same time, cast a dark shadow upon the friendly relations between Brazil and Japan...
...represent holders of $380,000,000 defaulted Brazilian dollar bonds at conferences in Rio de Janeiro, the Council dispatched J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., Mormon lawyer from Salt Lake City who succeeded the late Dwight Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico. The negotiations involved all the 100 or more issues comprising Brazil's $1,000.000,000 of external debt. French, Dutch and British bondholders were also represented. Upshot of this conference was a pact segregating the various issues into eight classes on which service on all but one (old defaults) will be promptly resumed in whole or in part...
Died. Charles Ranlett Flint, 84, retired industrial promoter, international agent, sportsman; of arteriosclerosis, after two years' illness; in Washington. Son of a New England clipper fleet owner, he fitted out warships for Brazilian revolutionists; sold torpedo boats and submarines to Russia, a cruiser to Japan; negotiated the Wright Brothers' first sales of airplanes abroad. He gathered a fortune reputed to be $100,000,000, had a hand in forming so many U. S. corporations that newspapers christened him "Father of Trusts...
...railroads or any other industry since, of all the makers of capital goods, they have suffered the most in Depression. In 1929 there were 1,200 locomotives ordered. In 1932 U. S. locomotive builders received orders for three- two for domestic industrial use and one for a Brazilian cement company which was built by American Locomotive Co. in its Canadian shops. Last year they got orders for 17-twelve for domestic railroads, four for industrial use, one for the Philippine Railway. In 1929 the railroads ordered 111,000 freight cars. In 1932 the car builders got orders for about...