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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...
...result of President Hoover's statement: stocks on the New York exchange, having coasted downward for a week as the tariff's passage grew more certain, definitely plunged in the year's blackest trading day thus far. ¶ President Hoover greeted at the White House Senhor Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil. At a state dinner in the Pan-American Union President Hoover accorded for the first time full social honors to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister and hostess of Vice President Curtis, by escorting her to the table, seating her at his right. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...
...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...