Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Jandyra Vargas, younger daughter of Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Vargas; to Ruy da Costa Gama, 25, apprentice pilot of Pan American Airways' Brazilian subsidiary, Panair do Brasil; in Rio de Janeiro...
Every year it is news in the South when the first bale of cotton is ginned. Last week, for the fifth time, Francisco P. Lozano, Rio Grande Valley farmer, made this news. But the event was the signal for little glee, for Texan Farmer Lozano and other U. S. cotton growers are expecting their second biggest crop in five years. Estimates have placed the total yield at 13,000,000 bales, compared to 12,400,000 in 1936, 10,630,000 in 1935. With a carryover of 14,000,000 bales from last year, this bumper crop can mean...
...into the rugged Huasteca hills of the central Mexican State of San Luis Potosí one day last week thundered Federal cavalry forces of President Lázaro Cárdenas. At the town of Rio Verde they found belligerent bands of agrarian soldiers, members of the private army of San Luis Potosí's General Saturnine Cedillo. Soon 22 agrarians lay dead, 15 wounded and 80 more were being rounded up as prisoners. But defiantly, 75 miles away, a lone Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast...
...palms of the garden and chipped the palace walls." For three-and-a-half anxious hours President Vargas and his defenders held out. Finally War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra, a bullet through his ear, arrived, leading a detachment .of the regular army and attacked the Integralistas from the rear. Rio Grande do Sul Interventor Colonel Oswaldo Cordeiro de Faria, who had been busy battling attackers at his home, appeared still clad in his pajamas at the head of a company of police, civilians and soldiers. They bottled up the Green Shirts with a flanking movement. Thirty Integralistas were captured, eight...
...World, the Brazilian Empire lasted until an uprising of landowners and army in 1889 forced Dom Pedro II to resign. Today his grandson, handlebar-mustached, white-haired Dom Pedro, lives a guest of the Brazilian Government on his tax-free Gráo Palace at Petropolis, outside Rio. Young Dom Juan last week stoutly insisted he "was merely trying to join the excitement and got in the way of a bullet", but police put him under bedside arrest ''for examination...