Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brazilians would not have been surprised had President Hoover vacated his White House, installed the Prestes therein. When Mr. Hoover as President-elect visited Rio de Janeiro* hospitable President Washington Luis of Brazil moved out of his official residence, Guanabara Palace, and in for 60 hours moved Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. Last week U. S. servants at the Meyer mansion were informed that they must not ascend to the second floor, where the President-elect, dynamic, Rooseveltian, big-boned, occupied Mrs. Meyer's pink-draped bedroom. The Prestes' own Brazilian "man" served his master's frugal breakfasts ? with emphasis...
...Business: Coffee Is Coffee. Nearly every day last week President-elect Prestes denied anew that his visit had anything to do with the famed $97,000,000 "coffee loan" (TIME, April 21) now fully subscribed, which was floated in Britain and the U. S. to subsidize the hoarded Brazilian surplus of 16,500,000 bags and keep the price of coffee from dropping like a plummet...
...Speyer's personal triumph seemed complete, but on the New York coffee exchange last week many a broker doubted that the loan would go through, "understood" that the Brazilian coffee situation is in such bad shape that J. Henry Schroder & Co. of London were beginning to wonder whether the coffee sword can be stayed, whether a coffee crisis and price slump are not inevitable...
Natural history books call them "jaguars" but "tiger" is the local name for the big mottled cats of Brazil, which grow nearly as big (300 Ibs.) and almost as strong as the biggest cats of Bengal. Brazilian cattle-raisers are glad when a tiger is killed. They prey on beeves. Few ranchers bother to hire tiger men and the state pays no bounties but any rancher will outfit a hunter with horses and food. The hunter's income then derives from the sale of skins ($40 each, f.o.b. the jungle) and live cubs ($400 each). Also there are plenty...
...Hunting Brazilian tigers as practiced by Alexander Siemel requires a few courageous mongrel dogs, a high-powered rifle with a bayonet attached or a six-foot spear. The dogs trail the tiger. If they tree it, Hunter Siemel shoots it through the head. (If shot through the heart, the beasts sometimes live long enough to claw a dog to death.) If the dogs run a tiger into a cave, Hunter Siemel goes in after it, spear or bayonet in hand. That, he says-for he is a sportsman as well as a businessman-is the finest way to kill...