Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven Capitals we own our Embassies: London, Paris, Constantinople, Havana, Mexico City, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro. In eight capitals, we now own our Legations* ? Prague, Christiania, Tangier, Bangkok (Siam), Peking, Panama, San Jose (Costa Rica), San Salvador. We own our Consulates at Shanghai, Amoy (Southern China), Seoul (Korea), Tahiti...
...saloon and courthouse in which it was his habit to decide shooting cases in a few minutes so as not to interfere with the regular business of the court-white lightning. They are gone, those days. Last week another judge, one Mullican, travelled 150 miles to Langtry on the Rio Grande, there held court. Helped by 250 witnesses, scores of attorneys, he sentenced a culprit to 50 years for the shooting of two cattle-inspectors...
...ownership of $23,703,000 of its $24,676,000 preferred and $10,000,000 of its $38,755,110 common stock. In addition, Missouri Pacific (or "Mop" as it is usually known, from its ticker symbol "MP") obtained a half interest with the Western Pacific in the Denver, Rio Grande & Western when the latter road was recognized a year ago. On this basis, the new "Mop" system will include 15,000 miles of track...
Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, having been feted with royal ceremonies by Argentina (TIME, Aug. 18), departed for Brazil, where he was to have been accorded a royal welcome in the gay capital of Rio de Janeiro. This plan was mutilated, however, by the recent Sao Paulo revolt (TIME, July 14 et seq.), and the chances of the Prince's being assassinated if he landed were thought to 'be so great that President A. da Silva Bernardes requested him to remain upon his warship, where President and Government are to pay him homage...
...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 town of Sao Paulo, who in turn managed to disaffect the State militia. Colonel Joao Francisco, famed Rio Grande leader, was said to be heading the uprising...