Word: rio
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Alexandro Finta de Arba, sculptor and director of all sculpture exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Rio de Janeiro, had to prove to immigration authorities at Ellis Island that he actually was an artist in order to gain admission to this country. Artists are exempt from immigration quotas, and as a result there have been a horde of impromptu "artists" on all arriving steamships. Signer de Arba proved his status by cablegrams from Rio de Janeiro-not by demonstrating his skill upon the spot...
...President felt inclined to play golf. A foursome it was- usually with Mr. McLean, Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board, and Charles G. Dawes. Eighteen holes on the Ormond Beach Links, the same on the Sea Breeze course, twice around the nine hole links at Melbourne, the same at Rio Mar. At Hove Sound, the President missed a day's golfing because the course was out of condition. At Ormond Mrs. Harding made her first public appearance since her illness. At Palm Beach she walked a hundred yards to her automobile, unassisted. Meanwhile the President acquired a coat...
...third congress was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1906, and the fourth in Buenos Aires...
President Bernardes of Brazil: "I sent a message of congratulation to The New York World, which promoted the New York-to-Rio flight of Pilot Hinton. I referred to aviation as 'that enterprise in which the Americans are unsurpassed- having given wings...
...Shipping Bill, the English debt, and King Tut-Ankh-Amen, leave little room in the newspapers for our neighbor south of the Rio Grande. Mexico recently has passed its second year under the administration of President Alvaro Obregon, revolutionary successor of President Carranza, and impartial observers, with vivid recollections of Madera, Huerta, and Villa, are taking stock...