Word: janeiro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yellowmen emigrated from Japan to the U. S. too fast, are now excluded. Smart, the sons of Nippon are not making that mistake again in Brazil. A sheaf of figures just released at Rio de Janeiro shows that only 11,231 Japanese immigrated last year-and they were not little yellowfolk but big, brown, burly. The Imperial Japanese Government knows the reason-is the reason-why strapping Japanese exclusively are entering Brazil in a slow but sure procession. "It is considered," reads a suave semi-official bulletin from the Home Office at Tokyo, "that great injustice would be done...
...Mighty Jesus." In a biplane named Jesus del Gran Poder (Mighty Jesus) Spanish Flyers Francisco Jiminez and Ignacio Iglesias last week flew from Seville on a non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro. They landed at Bahia, 4,100 miles from Seville, refueled and proceeded to Rio, whence they expect to go to Buenos Aires. Their flight is one of the longest on record...
Thomas Baltzell (Pathe). Marooned on a wrecked plane for twelve hours when his flight from Manhattan to Rio de Janeiro was interrupted, he got pictures of the wreck...
Looking daily fatter and persistently genial, President-Elect Hoover last week visited Uruguay and Brazil. The night before the-night-before-Christmas he sailed on the U. S. S. Utah from Rio de Janeiro for home...
Twenty-one guns were fired again by the harbor forts. The Hoovers went out to where the U. S. S. Utah lay in waiting. The harbor was not smooth. U. S. newsgatherers following by launch were thoroughly seasick. The Utah sailed for Rio de Janeiro with the Hoovers installed in admiral's quarters, the same quarters that General Pershing occupied when the Utah brought his mission home from Peru's centenary celebration...