Word: janeiro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Janeiro, Dr. Geraldo Kuhimann, Brazilian botanist, has found that the native sapusaia plant produces an oil of one degree greater optical axis than the best Indian chalmoogra oil, heretofore the chief hope of curing leprosy...
...added that, unless Brazil agrees not to repeat her veto tactics against Germany, Brazil will not be re-elected to her present nonpermanent seat. Sir Austen declared positively that Brazil's recent act blocking Germany's entrance to the League was due solely to orders from Rio de Janeiro, which he personally believed were given on account of local political conditions connected with the impending presidential election...
Died. Domicio Da Gama, sometime Brazilian Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U. S., and Ambassador to Great Britain; at Rio de Janeiro. He was married in 1912, at the Manhattan home of Judge Elbert H. Gary, to Mrs. Elizabeth Pell Hearn (widow of A. H. Hearn, dry goods) by famed Mayor Gaynor and Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, who performed respectively, the civil and religious ceremonies...
Architect Harry Allen Jacobs outlined a plan for furnishing Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, with a double-decked sidewalk, supported by imposing columns, whereby the lower sidewalk could be narrowed to give more room to traffic. On elaborate charts hung here and there, the future of London, Manchester, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, the City of Mexico and wherenot were delineated...
They will be acted on by the International Commission of Jurists, meeting at Rio de Janeiro, a few months hence...