Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moratorium" (postponement of payments) on all foreign obligations of Brazil's Na tional and State Governments. Sir Otto, although Vice Governor of the Bank of England, went to Brazil to oblige her chief British bankers, the House of Rothschild. He did not go at the invitation of the Brazilian Government. When cables screeching "Niemeyer Moratorium" reached London last week the House of Rothschild, startled, cabled Sir Otto. He rushed around to the Brazilian Treasury. Later he released with Treasury confirmation a denial that Brazil will declare a moratorium. What else Brazil can do (burdened as her whole economic life...
...Vive le Roil Vive la France!" cried a throng of French and Brazilian Royalists, some of them poor people who had come all the way to Palermo at great personal sacrifice. "Vive le Dauphin! Vive la Princesse...
...Agitated Brazilian police gathered at a respectful distance, but by this time Prince George was dozing. Did he or did he not know there was a law against taking off one's top on that beach...
Pleased at having made a hole-in-one on the golf course at Santos, Edward of Wales finally sailed for home last week with Prince George on the Royal Mail ship Arlanza. "He is," agreed Brazilian editors, "um braço?a jolly good fellow...
...trypanosome, protozoon which under the microscope resembles an auger. Two kinds of trypanosomes are indigenous to Africa, another kind to South America. The African types, borne by the tsetse fly, cause African sleeping sickness,* which kills 10,000 to 20,000 natives yearly. The "barber bug," a voracious Brazilian insect, is chief transmitter of the parasites in South America...