Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper New York state, defy Democratic Governor Roosevelt and attempt to make a 49th state out of the environs of Poughkeepsie, the Federal Government and the U. S. Army would doubtless give him short shrift. But things are different in Brazil. Rebellious José Pereira has potent friends in Rio de Janeiro. Though over 500 rebels and Parahyba state police have been killed since February near Princeza, Federal troops have not been called out, nor has the State President of Pernambuco allowed State President Pessoa to bring his militia through Pernambuco territory to surround Rebel Pereira...
...Rio de Janeiro officials did their best to hush this up too. A Federal censorship was established. Liberal-owned radio stations were closed. Chief of Police Oliveira Sobrinho called editors of opposition papers into his office, pointed out how unfortunate it would be if they should publish "false and misleading" accounts of the assassination or the unfortunate little affair of the ''independent state" in Parahyba...
...Hoover may well have touched on the reason why the State Banquet was stag. Mrs. Hoover, still suffering from her fall, had been obliged to remain recuperating by the Rapidan (TIME, June 16). For his part Senhor Prestes may have mentioned the illness of his wife. She left Rio with him, had to be put ashore sick at Pernambuco, recovered, sailed for Europe last week, and will very shortly meet the President-elect in London or Paris, returning thence with him to become Brazil's First Lady...
...Faith and Beauty!" Next day Guest Prestes was welcomed to the imposing, white marble Pan-American Building by Statesman Stimson, who as an old school New York lawyer gallantly attempted an oration which would sound sufficiently fiery and cordial when cabled to Rio: ". . . Delightful task of welcoming you! ... In the history of international relations no country occupies a prouder place than Brazil...
...Discoverer Martin Alfonso de Sousa mistook an arm of the Atlantic for a river, christened it seasonably the "River of January" (Rio de Janeiro...