Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were no cold dead fish in the bottom of his returning boat when Franklin Roosevelt on his voyage southward paused at Trinidad to try a little off-shore trolling. Nor was there anything cold and dead about the streets of Rio de Janeiro last week when he set foot upon Brazilian soil. Upwards of 150,000 Brazilians vented few cheers, but clapped their hands in delight at the sight of the President of the U. S. and their own President Getulio Dornellas Vargas appearing so democratically, side by side in ordinary business suits, as they rode through the city...
Brazil's Foreign Minister, Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, one of the biggest businessmen in São Paulo, owner of vast coffee plantations, a student of economics and diplomacy, the kind of man who wears comfortable and badly wrinkled linen suits, is not interested in social functions and rides to his office in full state behind a chauffeur and a liveried footman...
...successful was this flagrant breach of Latin-American diplomatic etiquet that Franklin Roosevelt last week copied it, won vivas and much praise at Rio de Janeiro by appearing for his official welcome in a sack suit...
...sneeringly confident of acquittal, Prosecutor McMahon and his assistants presented the Government's story of peonage, 1936 Arkansas style. The story was pieced together from the testimony of some 30 witnesses, including many a frightened Negro who feared the big-jawed defendant, repeatedly referred to him as "De Law." Specifically the Government charged that last May "De Law," as a deputy sheriff, falsely arrested eight Crittenden County blackamoors for vagrancy, railroaded them through a Justice of the Peace Court, and forced them to clear timber on his plantation to work out 30-day sentences and $25 fines. The Negroes...
...ability, but not the experience. What they need is a great deal of practice. The power of the Yardlings cannot be accurately determined, for it is not known how many of the candidates are going out for hockey. On the squad, the outstanding men are easily Kim de S. Canavarro, and Silas W. Howland...