Word: rio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Mob. While the generals and prelates of Brazil thus played their roles with dignity, Rio de Janeiro mobs sacked and burned the offices of pro-Washington Luis newspapers (i. e. nearly all the newspapers in the capital), caused a property loss...
...York, handed this message, asked him to define in a sentence what the civil war had been all about. "Generally speaking," he replied, "the revolution was the result of political favoritism and domination of the country by the coffee interests in the state of Sao Paulo," bitterest rival of Rio Grande...
...Silence! Respect!" The coup d'etat in Rio de Janeiro, contrary to many U. S. newspaper stories and headlines last week, was not featured by the resignation of venerable, white-bearded President Washington Luis. What happened was this: at 1 p. m. Federal General Tasso Fragoso and Federal General Jaoa de Deus Menna Barreto, both natives of Rio Grande do Sul, approached the presidential palace at the head of a body of officers, announced that they and virtually the whole body of federal officers in the capital had decided to take over the government as a military junta...
Dead Germans. That the people should thus behave was to be expected, but at the fortress in which President Washington Luis sat officers, too, lost their heads. They saw the Hamburg-South American liner Baden sail out of Rio bound for Buenos Aires, her decks teeming with Spanish emigrants. To stop her they fired three blank signal shots. The Baden steamed on. The fourth shot was a shrapnel shell. Bursting on deck it killed 23 Spanish emigrants, four German sailors, wounded forty others...
When the Baden put back to Rio her captain was gaoled. Complained he: "They had been firing blank shots all day to celebrate the revolution...