Word: pereira
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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President and Senhora Washington Luis Pereira de Souza† had come into Rio from the summer capital at Petropolis in time to dash up to the gangplank amid a fanfare of trumpets. Also present were Vice President Mello Vianna and many a Senator and Deputy. Bright-uniformed guards lined the Avenida Rio Branco up which the procession passed. Confetti and ticker-tape snowed down à la the U. S. The crowd was estimated at the conventional...
Devices for securing funds for good works are multifarious and strange. None, certainly, is more strange or ingenious than the dinner which will be given, in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Milwaukee. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, on May 21, in honor of the Rev. Dr. Henry Pereira Mendes, Founder and Honorary President of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America. At this dinner, carrying to an extreme the fad for inexpensive banqueting which has been previously evidenced, no food whatever will be served. The guests-10,000 will be invited-will nonetheless pay for their good dinner...
Soon the Lloyd George family were welcomed as official and honored guests of the Estados Unidos do Brazil by President Dr. Washington Luis Pereira de Souza. Three days in Rio and two more of inland excursioning, to be followed by a swift return to England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling...