Word: nabuco
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...along with the report at all. The Organization of American States' coffee commission whipped out a report charging, among other things, that Senator Gillette was encouraging Communism by trying to get the price of coffee down. The ambassadors themselves huddled for days at sage, broom-browed Mauricio Nabuco's Brazilian embassy, batted out a lengthy rebuttal of the Gillette report ("it proposes . . . [potential] economic warfare against our nations"), defended the year's 70% rise in coffee prices as the natural consequence of "the law of supply & demand...
...said Mauricio Nabuco, Secretary-general of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, at last January's Rio conference. Last week Pan-American unity got its biggest tangible boost in World War II when Brazil became the first South American country formally to declare war on Germany and Italy.* (Japan having committed no aggression against Brazil, was omitted from the declaration...
...Daughter of Joaquim Nabuco, who, with his great friend Elihu Root, created the scaffolding of Pan-Americanism...
Frying more or less in public, since the New York Times divulged it two months ago, is a quarrel between Miss du Maurier's publishers and the Brazilian novelist, Carolina Nabuco,* who points out what seem to her, and to irate Brazilian literary circles, many remarkable similarities between her own novel, A Sucesora, and the more recent Rebecca. In London Miss du Maurier denies ever having heard either of A Sucesora or its author, prior to the accusation. Her publishers point out that "the sad-second-wife setup" (framework of both novels) is as old as the Book...
Happiest delegate, next to Cordell Hull, was Brazil's black-browed Mauricio de Nabuco, who, though he quietly influences foreign policy from his desk as Secretary General to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had never attended an international conference before. Son of an Ambassador who died at his Washington post in 1917, Mauricio de Nabuco believes that Brazil should follow U. S. policy. This does not keep him from being a shrewd trader. Last week he, too, was on his way to Washington, to collect a few favors for Brazil in return for his pro-U. S. stand...