Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General José Flores da Cunha, one of the original backers of the Vargas 1930 revolt which gave him the Presidential foothold, deposed recently as Governor of the rich state of Rio Grande do Sul in a clash over Vargas-usurped powers, exiled himself in Uruguay...
...United States of Brazil last month were given a new Constitution by their Dictator. Last week at a great open-air ceremony in Rio de Janeiro attended by Dictator-President Getulio Vargas, the Cabinet, highest army and navy officers and thousands of workers and schoolchildren, 20 Girl Scouts solemnly burned the flags of each of the 20 United States of Brazil upon an altar. Meanwhile the President had hoisted a large national flag. Simultaneously schoolchildren representing each of the 20 States hoisted 20 small national flags. Thus was symbolized the new Constitution's extinction of States' rights...
...populous Brazilian State, still retained this week its popular Governor Benedicto Valladares. By decrees last week President Vargas completed his work of kicking out the governors of the other 19 States, replacing each with a federal interventor. Ex-Governor José Antonio Flores da Cunha of the State of Rio Grande do Sul was ordered tried on charges of having ordered $1,000,000 worth of munitions from Germany, recently, apparently had hoped to use them to right what he considers States' wrongs...
High Flyers (RKO Radio), a prettified thing of unfunny gags and attenuated plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement...
Married. Jefferson Caffery, 50, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil, to Gertrude Mc-Carthy, Chicago socialite daughter of the late Colonel Daniel E. McCarthy, onetime A. E. F. chief quartermaster; in Rio de Janeiro...