Word: rio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brazilian relations were last week described as "rapidly approaching the breaking point." The reason, of course, was the Arms Embargo President Hoover, on the State Department's recommendation, had laid down against the Brazilian revolutionaries only two days before they ousted President Washington Luis and seized the Rio government (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.~). The complimentary form of U. S. recognition was designed especially to make amends for this ill-advised action, to win back lost U. S. favor and prestige in Brazil...
...Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo last week, Brazilian publishers were picking up the pieces left by the wild mobs that looted, sacked and wrecked pro-Washington Luis newspaper offices at the end of Brazil's revolution (TIME...
...Rio Grande...
...junction of Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Beira-Mar stands an obelisk, pride of the city. Last week 16 slouch-hatted gauchos (cowboys) with ponchos over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk...
Spasm. Three days later a minor counter-revolutionary spasm occurred in Rio. Disgruntled military police and hungry Communists rioted, seized the central police station. Barricaded behind bean and flour sacks, soldiers, sailors, marines potshot the insurgents. Inside of two hours the uprising was quelled. Casualties: 200 killed and wounded...