Word: ferreira
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen years ago a young Brazilian, Virgilino Ferreira da Silva, persuaded the trusting Assembly of the State of Pernambuco to make him an honorary captain in its constabulary so that he might avenge his father who had been murdered in Pernambuco's hinterland. The Assembly made a mistake...
...Going to be Rich, however, is made really tops by the superb assurance-acquired before innumerable real audiences in London and provincial theatres-with which Miss Fields does her specialties. High point of the picture: the Fields rendering of a Boer folk song, Vat Jon Goed en Trek, Ferreira (Pack Up and Go, Ferreira), as a request number in a Johannesburg dive...
After colliding with the official automobile of Massachusetts' Governor James Michael ("Jim") Curley, Louis J. Ferreira Jr. had his driver's license suspended indefinitely. Indignantly exclaimed Ferreira: "Some friend of Curley . . . took me home in a car. He . . . told me if I didn't keep quiet I'd lose my license. He asked me if I was working and I told him no and he said if I kept quiet...
Typical of the sniggling subservience paid the Governor of Massachusetts by his horde of minions is the Registrar of Motor Vehicles' handling of the latest Curley accident. Not only has the unfortunate driver of the other car, young Ferreira, been summarily and unjustly deprived of his license but the full weight of bureaucratic persecution has been levelled at his head, despite the impartial and credible testimony of twelve witnesses. Such is justice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the stewardship of James M. Curley...
...savage and irrational attack, indiscriminately levelled at the witnesses to the crash, the Press, reporters in general, and Ferreira, Goodwin blames newspaper handling of the affair, reconstructs a highly unlikely series of events leading to the crash and is fatuous enough to assume that any proportion of the thinking public will credit his words with truth...