Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current newspapers are stories of a horrible bluebeard who has murdered some two score wives. The gossip group of the boarding house identify their bearded visitor with the villain. He turns out to be simply a cheap crook on his way to his girl's sanctuary in her native Rio...
...League session. He added that, unless Brazil agrees not to repeat her veto tactics against Germany, Brazil will not be re-elected to her present nonpermanent seat. Sir Austen declared positively that Brazil's recent act blocking Germany's entrance to the League was due solely to orders from Rio de Janeiro, which he personally believed were given on account of local political conditions connected with the impending presidential election...
...miracles is definitely past and with it has gone the prestige of the wonder worker. On the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, four Indians, doubtless bona fide medicine men of the ancient type, failed to cure a cross-eyed...
...reason is this: Recently Colonel Manuel Demetrio Torres, known as Chaparreras, was taken by U. S. officials in Laredo, Tex., and transferred across the Rio Grande to the Mexican authorities. He had fought with the Huertistas against Obregon and Calles. He was handed over to the Mexican Government, by order of the U. S. Department of Labor through its immigration officials, because it was alleged he was illegally resident in the U. S. Before he was handed over, the Mexican Consul at Laredo had given assurances that he would not be treated as a political prisoner. The immigration authorities also...
Died. Domicio Da Gama, sometime Brazilian Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U. S., and Ambassador to Great Britain; at Rio de Janeiro. He was married in 1912, at the Manhattan home of Judge Elbert H. Gary, to Mrs. Elizabeth Pell Hearn (widow of A. H. Hearn, dry goods) by famed Mayor Gaynor and Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, who performed respectively, the civil and religious ceremonies...