Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From British India will come 22 Hindus, 15 Moslems, two Sikhs, a Parsee, a Buddhist, a Christian. Socially the delegates range from the pale and paunchy Aga Khan, smart racehorse breeder and spiritual head of Ismaili Moslems (so holy that priests peddle his used bath water), to lowly Rio Bahadur-Rettamalle Sprinivasan Avargal, representative of Indian "untouchables." Sure defenders of the most conservative British position at the conference will be ten ruling princes of Indian native states. Well do they know that the existence of their realms, possibly their own existence, is dependent on Britain's maintaining a strong...
...York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line Inc. New York City...
TIME should know that this expenditure put into operation the fastest long distance air line in the world-Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Miami, 7,300 miles, 6½ days...
...NYRBA is due much pioneering glory NYRBA's President, Ralph A. O'Neill, piloted the first commercial plane between the United States and Buenos Aires blazing the virgin aerial trail from New York to Miami to Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires; NYRBA planes were the first to cross the perilous Andes between Santiago and Buenos Aires many weeks before they were followed by Pan American Grace Airways; NYRBA's pilots explored the lower West Indies and the East Coast of South America to the Guianas many weeks before Lindbergh "blazed the trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands...
Brazil, already troubled with a minor insurrection in the state of Parahyba (TIME, Aug. 11, 18), rang with rumors last week of an impending revolution in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Details were not forthcoming. The Brazilian Embassy in Washington, the Brazilian foreign minister, President Washington Luis united in an almost hysterical desire to quash reports. Said the President's secretary, Senhor Mendes Goncalves: "His Excellency authorizes me to state that the situation of Brazil is at present as it has been in recent times, of the most perfect economical, political and financial order...