Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revolution in coffee-growing Sao Paulo State bumbled along last week with much talk, little action save an inspired move by Rio de Janeiro's police chief. Through all Brazilian papers he announced that students, radicals and other sympathizers with the Sao Paulo revolutionists might assemble by the obelisk at 10 a. m. Sunday morning. Army trucks would be waiting for them there; they would be given a free ride to Sao Paulo to join the revolution if they so desired. Any revolutionists who refused the ride and thereafter made trouble would be jailed and "dealt with severely...
...athletes who had arrived in Los Angeles last week for the Xth Olympic Games, saddest were 69 Brazilians. They had brought with them 50,000 bags of coffee but no money. When they tried to land at Los Angeles, they were unable to pay the head tax of $1 per man. Having no radio, they learned for the first time about the Brazilian revolution. Appalled, the Brazilians set about selling coffee to pay their expenses...
Died. Alberto Santos-Dumont, 59, one of the "fathers of aviation," Brazilian-born, credited as one of the inventors of powered lighter-than-air craft; of arteriosclerosis; in Bello Horizonte, Minas Geraes, Brazil. In 1901 he piloted one of his airships around the Eiffel Tower. He was not successful with airplanes until more than three years after the first successful flights of the Wright Brothers...
...munitions plants humming, notably in France and among her "satellites" such as Czechoslovakia. Last week, despite the fact that Brazil is still tasting the dregs of a coffee crisis, candid Provisional President Getulio Vargas authorized the purchase of two cruisers, eight gunboats, seven submarines, six submarine tenders. The present Brazilian navy consists chiefly of two dread-naughts, three cruisers, one coast defense vessel, ten destroyers, four submarines, one salvage ship. "The armament firms in every country are enjoying a little boom." observed London's New Statesman & Nation. "The Board of Trade has published some interesting figures about our arms...
Autocratic in word & deed, the Coffee Council cabled last week that they have "definitely and irrevocably" abandoned a plan to pay premiums to U. S. coffee merchants who use more Brazilian coffee...