Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Efforts to organixe a Brazilian K.K.K. in San Paolo were opposed last week by the Fuente Negra ("Black Front") which claims a membership of 50,000, urges "reestablishment of friendly relations between the races...
When Belgian King Albert rolled over to Rio in 1919, hospitable Brazilians built him a special train in which he toured their United States. Last week Royal Albert's train, splendidly refurbished, was turned over to Brazil's latest great visitor, big-fisted President Augustin P. Justo of Argentina who rolled up to Rio in a battleship (TIME, Oct. 16). Just before his departure last week dynamic General Justo signed with broad and highbrowed Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil what they called "ten treaties." First was a pact of utmost significance, binding Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay...
...Royal Albert's special last week. President Justo made for Sao Paulo and Santos. "The Coffee Heart of Brazil." After visiting famed Butantan Snake Farm, where deft attendants showed him how anti-snake-bite vaccine is made from venom, President Justo rode out to a typical Brazilian coffee jazenda, then embarked at Santos to sail home on the Argentine dreadnaught Moreno. He had not even reached home when an incident occurred to give a decidedly ironic twist to the peace negotiations. A cousin and a nephew of President Vargas were killed in a minor fracas with Argentine frontier guardsmen...
...hospitable Brazilians rushed to completion two triumphal arches for their Argentine guest, a big arch 95 ft. high on which colored lights played all night and a cosy little arch. Short, rotund President Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil has recovered from the motor accident in which he broke both legs last spring (TIME, May 8); he was up in the Graf Zeppelin last week circling Northern Brazil, flew back to Rio just in time to send out several battleships and 60 Brazilian naval planes to greet President Justo in whose further honor Brazil printed commemorative postage stamps...
...small Host Vargas big Guest Justo brought an amazingly all-inclusive seven-point program for action this week. The A & B Presidents planned to: 1) sign a non-aggression treaty previously negotiated by their foreign ministers; and then discuss: 2) stimulation of Argentine- Brazilian trade by preferential tariffs; 3) A & B co-operation to stamp out smuggling; 4) mutual assistance in preventing South American revolutionists from hatching plots against their President on the soil of another country; 5) cultural interchange between A & B; 6) promotion of A & B tourist travel; 7) "encouragement of aviation...