Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spoiling for a fight last week young U. S. citizens stormed the Brazilian Embassy at Washington, Brazilian Consulates throughout the U. S., the Brazilian Tourist Bureau in Manhattan...
Today there is a civil war in Brazil. It arose from a difference between Brazilian leaders, it is financed by Brazilian money, and its effects are largely confined to that land inside Brazilian boundaries; yet the national consul at New York was deluged by American volunteers. They have tendered their services, and are prepared to give their lives--to Brazil. There is nothing admirable about these men; they deserve the contempt leveled upon an assassin who kills because he likes the red color of blood...
...Brasil are too colossal for comic-opera upsets, just right for majestic civil war. Each state has its own army. Each president [governor] of a state is a more or less swashbuckling stickler for "states' rights." In Rio de Janeiro, scene of no revolt last week, the Brazilian Congress met and quietly voted $12,000,000 to put down simultaneous revolutions in the three states of Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Geraes and Parahyba. With 120 ballots favoring and eight opposed, the Congress declared "state of siege" (similar to "martial...
Despite luncheons and teaparties in New York by the Brazilian consul general and that fervent admirer of Brazilian beauty, the Electric Bond & Share Corp., despite special wires relaying minute by minute descriptions of Miss Brazil's doings to South America, she did not win. Worst of all, with ten prizes to be awarded, she did not even place. The affaire Bergamini-Galveston almost became a diplomatic incident. Brazilians swore a mighty oath that never, never again would they send one of their fair daughters to exhibit herself before unappreciative Galvestonians...
...Frankly," said the Brazilian foreman of the jury, "I am unable to appreciate the so-called blonde Nordic type...