Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wendell Phillips, son of the first mayor of Boston, said in a memor- able speech: "Revolutions are not made; they come." The trouble with Brazil's revolution (TIME, July 14, et seq.) was that it would not go.
In fighting conflagrations, blankets are often employed to cut off ventilation, smother the flames. Just so were the fires of revolution dealt with by the Brazilian Government when they broke out in Sao Paulo (TIME, July 15, July 21). A heavy swaddling of censorship was wrapped about the Press. For...
From Buenos Aires, Capital of the Argentine, from Montevideo, Capital of Uruguay, and occasionally from Rio de Janeiro, Capital of Brazil, came news of the Sao Paulo revolution (TIME, July 14).
It now appears that the revolution is aimed against Señor Arturo Bernardes, President of Brazil, and in part against Carlos da Campo, Governor of the State of Sao Paulo, by certain political enemies in Rio de Janeiro, who managed to win to their side important people in the...
On the other hand, indirect news of the rebels showed that the revolution was much larger and more serious than the Brazilian Government had cared to make known. Upward of 400 civilians were killed in Sao Paulo, exclusive of the losses of Federal and rebel troops.