Word: rio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement new to Latin American revolutions came from the revolutionists of Sao Paulo last week, leaders in Brazil's civil war against the Rio de Janeiro Government of Provisional President Getulio Vargas. So many enthusiasts had volunteered for the rebel army that the lists were full and the books closed with a complement of 60,000 men-all that Sao Paulo arsenals, armories and munitions plants can take care of. Tardy volunteers must take their places on the waiting list, to be called as casualties warrant...
...Even Rio had to admit last week that the resistance of the Sao Paulo rebels was greater than previously announced. General Waldemiro Lima of the Federal forces maneuvered importantly in this fifth week of the revolution without producing any concrete results. President Vargas issued a decree last week calling for three new infantry battalions and 800 more cavalry troopers. It was admitted that the Federal troops have had no great success. A grand mass offensive with airplanes, tanks, artillery and infantry was promised for next week...
...give it away. No one wanted it. Finally Lawyer Victor A. Miller of Denver said he would take the line as a gift, and last week he applied to the I. C. C. for permission to accept it. Lawyer Miller knows what he is about. As receiver for Rio Grande Southern R. R. he has profitably substituted light gasoline trucks and busses for heavy rolling stock. Some trains are made up of an automobile fitted with flanged wheels, carrying ten passengers, and a diminutive freight car. If the I. C. C. lets him accept the gift, Lawyer Miller will...
Revolution in coffee-growing Sao Paulo State bumbled along last week with much talk, little action save an inspired move by Rio de Janeiro's police chief. Through all Brazilian papers he announced that students, radicals and other sympathizers with the Sao Paulo revolutionists might assemble by the obelisk at 10 a. m. Sunday morning. Army trucks would be waiting for them there; they would be given a free ride to Sao Paulo to join the revolution if they so desired. Any revolutionists who refused the ride and thereafter made trouble would be jailed and "dealt with severely...
...hundred miles north of the fighting, President Vargas sat as tight as he could in Rio de Janeiro, signed a decree pardoning Army deserters "on condition that they at once present themselves for service...