Word: janeiro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glamor of hope expressed at the opening, some good was done by the exchange of widely divergent views, and there is one definite although potential gain of Pan-American importance. This is the proposal for a Pan-American Congress of Jurists, which is to take place at Rio de Janeiro in 1925. The object of this congress is to codify American international law. Hope is expressed in some quarters that the codification of this law will assist the plan for a Pan-American Court of Justice...
Radio broadcasting from the Brazilian Centennial Exposition at Rio de Janeiro was heard at Honolulu, 8,000 miles away, establishing a new distance record. The phonofilm," an apparatus which produces sound and pictures simultaneously, invented by Dr. Lee de Forest, was successfully demonstrated before the New York Electrical Society...
Alexandro Finta de Arba, sculptor and director of all sculpture exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Rio de Janeiro, had to prove to immigration authorities at Ellis Island that he actually was an artist in order to gain admission to this country. Artists are exempt from immigration quotas, and as a result there have been a horde of impromptu "artists" on all arriving steamships. Signer de Arba proved his status by cablegrams from Rio de Janeiro-not by demonstrating his skill upon the spot...
...third congress was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1906, and the fourth in Buenos Aires...
...arrival at Rio de Janeiro of Lieutenant Hinton of NC-4 and runaway balloon fame, in the flying ship Sampaio Correia II calls attention to another air achievement which will help to restore popular confidence in the commercial possibilities of long distance flying. The flight of the Sampaio Correia over the five and a half thousand miles between Pensacola and the capital of Brazil was accomplished in little over a hundred hours...