Word: julio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doorway. ". . . The mob leaders, not wishing to cause a conflict with the U. S., stood by and ordered everything packed up lest it be damaged in the fire and flood which followed ... all we lost . . . was a fountain pen which was picked up by someone and a photograph of Julio Prestes [onetime] president-elect of Brazil [which was confiscated...
This information jibed with Statesman Stimson's preconceptions of the Brazilian revolt. The U. S. Government, having officially entertained Handsome Julio Prestes, President Washington Luis's elected successor, in Washington last June, had every reason to want and expect him to take office this month. On the strength of Secretary Washington's reports and the direct request of the Brazilian Ambassador in Washington, President Hoover last week clapped down an arms embargo against the revolutionists. Penalty for its violation: $10,000 fine, two years in gaol...
Coffee v. Livestock = Civil War. Coffee is the President of Brazil (Dr. Washington Luis) and also the President-elect (Dr. Julio Prestes), both from the great Coffee State of Sao Paulo which is supposed to have the best army...
...good and moneyed friend Eugene Meyer Jr. The weather was becoming warm. Mrs. Meyer would perhaps be hastening a trifle her departure to the Meyer country estate. This would leave the Meyer mansion in Washington free to serve as house and home for four days to President-elect Julio Prestes of Brazil who arrived in Washington last week with his gay and handsome son Fernando...
Popular Prestes. Not since the visit of Ramsay MacDonald & Daughter Ishbel has socialite Washington been so favorably impressed as it was by Julio Prestes & Son Fernando. With affable dignity they ably represented the 20 United States of Brazil, almost as populous as the islands of which Mr. MacDonald is Prime Minister, and 258,530 sq. mi. larger than the 48 states of which Mr. Hoover is President...