Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miguel Auza last week and scattered a troop of young Mexican conscripts drilling in the square. The bandits occupied the town for several hours until Government troops arrived. The Mayor, his son and several others were killed; many were wounded. During the same afternoon bands attacked the towns of Rio Grande and Nieves in the State of Zacatecas. There was no looting, but many civilians were killed and more were wounded...
...Oswaldo Aranha, Winchell whirled about the country. He talked with big & little Brazilians, to U.S. officers and men stationed in Brazil. In São Paulo's big industrial plants he made brief translated talks to the workers. His biggest official hit was at a press banquet in Rio when he raised his cup of coffee to the level of his Brazilian host's cup and gave this toast: "Never above you-never beneath you-always beside you." The Brazilian press adopted the toast as a slogan...
...your issue of Dec. 21 why did you intentionally misquote the cable wired by your Rio de Janeiro representative in stating that tweedy Artist Biddie was "the first U.S. artist ever commissioned by a South American country to decorate public buildings." He reported to you - did he not - that Biddie and Helene Sarde.au were together commissioned to decorate the main lobby of the National Library with fresco and bronze bas-reliefs...
Christmas comes at the beginning of the Southern Hemisphere's summer for Holland McCombs and Jane Braga in Rio, for Hal Horan and Kurt Steinfeld in Buenos Aires, for William Chickering in Australia, for Hart Preston and Bob Landry in South Africa...
Stories of Brazil's fight to open up the West were typical pioneer stories. Rio de Janeiro papers told how bad white men were stirring up the Indians to attack the settlers. Seven members of the Service of Protection to Indians (an old organization devoted to the preservation and protection of Brazilian tribes) were reported killed in Indian raids. Men sent to build landing fields and develop sanitation stations were in constant danger of being killed by natives or disease...