Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" lately crowed a loud, defiant crow. Last week lawyers in Manhattan and Brownsville, Tex., made ready to dispute the pros and cons of his crowing...
...Hunter Liggett, John Masefield, Edwin Markham, E. H. Sothern, William Howard Taft, David Warfield, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Ignace Paderewski. Honorary members include Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: Sir Hubert Brand. Rear Admiral, British Navy; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest the full moon they give a play. The 1929 play, A Guest of Robin Hood, performed last week with Mr. Shoup in the audience, was written by Charles G. Norris with music by Robert...
...Editor of Brazil's O Estado de Sao Paulo sat reading a copy of TIME. He thought back to the hectic week when millions of Brazilians were positive that delectable "Miss Brazil" would be crowned "Miss Universe" at Galveston, Tex. He remembered how the whole Rio and San Paulo press printed "sure thing" predictions, relying on despatches from leading U. S. news services. Rio got the impression that Manhattan males were well nigh frenzied over "Miss Brazil," that her progress through the U. S. was like the triumph of a Roman Emperor. Even Rio's carefully edited Cerreio...
...airman is becoming mighty in South American aviation, and another is promising to become so. They are Juan Terry Trippe and Ralph A. O'Neill, presidents respectively of Pan-American Airways and New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Lines. Both are in their middle 30's, both intend to tie a line of transports around the continent. Mr. Trippe last week was well on his way, Mr. O'Neill just starting...
...when he forms a west coast line, it will probably join at once with the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line which Ralph A. O'Neill is shoving through along the east coast. The same U. S. money is back of both...