Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brazil, already troubled with a minor insurrection in the state of Parahyba (TIME, Aug. 11, 18), rang with rumors last week of an impending revolution in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Details were not forthcoming. The Brazilian Embassy in Washington, the Brazilian foreign minister, President Washington Luis united in an almost hysterical desire to quash reports. Said the President's secretary, Senhor Mendes Goncalves: "His Excellency authorizes me to state that the situation of Brazil is at present as it has been in recent times, of the most perfect economical, political and financial order...
...send hunters there specially or buy up specimens caught casually. Last week in Manhattan, Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter (TIME, April 21), and Capt. Vladimir Perfilieff, artist-explorer (TIME, Dec. 30), revealed some of their plans for an expedition which will start shortly for Matto Grosso, high and wild Brazilian hinterland, to catch animals, sell them to U. S. zoos. David Newell, U. S. puma hunter, naturalist and author,* is going with them; also John Clarke and Francis Spaulding, Manhattan sportsmen...
...Episcopal Church, South's, general conference at Dallas last spring (TIME, May 26, et seq.), Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon of Charlotte, N. C. sailed into Rio de Janeiro's mountain-shadowed harbor last week. A motor procession carried him and his party to a conference with important Brazilian Methodists. They at once began to write a constitution for a Methodist Church of Brazil. Just arrived from Europe with his new wife and meeting them was Bishop James Cannon Jr., the Southern Methodists' missionary bishop of Brazil, as well as chairman of their Board of Temperance & Social Service...
Parahyba is heavily Liberal, but the Brazilian Federal government and most of the rest of Brazil's state governments are and will continue for the next four years to be Conservative Republican. Five-and-a-half months ago one José Pereira, hotheaded Republican state deputy in the Parahyba legislature, complained that sufficiently rich political plums were not falling into his lap, retired to his bailiwick, the mountainous city of Princeza on the Parahyba-Pernambuco frontier, and declared that Princeza and its surroundings were a new independent Brazilian state responsible only to the Federal government...
...flat, the weather fair on March 4, 1918, when the Navy's 19,360-ton collier Cyclops put out of Barbados for Baltimore. She was carrying a heavy cargo of Brazilian manganese, badly needed by U. S. steel plants making War munitions. She slipped over the Caribbean horizon and, though no enemy warship was thought to be in the vicinity, she never was heard from again, by wireless or otherwise. Searching craft found no trace of wreckage. Of the 293 people aboard, no body was ever recovered. Said Wartime Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels in his report that...