Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election, 43 of his 63 years had been spent in the pursuit of politics, for by special dispensation (known in Texas as "removal of disabilities") he ran for county attorney at the age of 20. For 29 years he had represented in Congress a strip of semidesert along the Rio Grande border...
...occasion was the state visit of paunchy, pompous Senhor Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, to big, soldierly President Agustin P. Justo of Argentina. In 1933 President Justo paid a call on President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro which was notably successful in furthering trade and tourist traffic between the two countries. Now with suggestions from the Silver Jubilee in London, and a few original ideas of her own. Argentina was set to give her Brazilian neighbors a return welcome they would not soon forget...
...thousand pounds of lobster were a mere nothing. Up the broad Plata nosed the Brazilian battleship São Paulo with President Vargas aboard, the cruisers Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul, escorted by two Argentine battleships, six cruisers and a squadron of destroyers. High overhead zoomed a squadron of 13 Brazilian naval planes that had flown all the way from Rio de Janeiro. There should have been 18, but three were forced down at Rio Grande do Sul and two were reported missing. Crowds along the waterfront cheered the survivors to the echo...
...late to help choose Pius XI. One of the new Pope's first official acts was to extend the period to 18 days. Thus before the next conclave there should be ample time for the arrival of the four U. S. Cardinals, Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve, Rio de Janeiro's Cardinal Leme da Silveira...
...least known of Mexico's 28 states. Yet there is hardly a Mexican schoolboy who is not familiar, for one reason or another, with Morelia, its capital city. There 152 years ago was born Don Agustin de Iturbide. Not even a name north of the Rio Grande, Don Iturbide was a minor Mussolini 100 years ahead of his time. He became dictator of Mexico, was proclaimed Emperor Agustin I only one year after the last Spanish viceroy was driven out. Emperor Agustin reigned for only one winter, left for Europe, returned and was executed. So, 43 years later...