Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Higinio Morinigo, brought over by promises to keep him in office after the expiration of his legal term, aided the military clique in its plan to dismiss pro-Allied Foreign Minister Luis Argana and reorient Paraguayan policy toward neutral Buenos Aires rather than toward belligerent Rio. The Morinigo Government stopped work on the new $1,000,000 airport under construction near Asunción. The protests of bearded U.S. Ambassador Wesly Frost produced no results and U.S. airport engineers packed to go home...
...Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, was once told he was going to be introduced to "one of the Biddies." Asked he: "What's a Biddle?" Last week Rio de Janeiro learned about the most unorthodox of living Biddies: George,* who was born in Philadelphia, went to Groton & Harvard, but turned out to be an artist. The first U.S. artist ever commissioned by a South American country to decorate public buildings, he had done two murals for Brazil's massive National Library...
...Navy's Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, who vanished loudly on a secret mission three weeks ago, turned up in Rio de Janeiro for temporary duty in the Naval attache's office there...
Scottish-born Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with reply), president of Princeton Theological Seminary, is usually a mild man. But last week his dander was up. A longtime missionary in Mexico, Peru and Uruguay, he well knew that the republics south of the Rio Grande still admit Protestant missionaries, educators and doctors, despite some wartime difficulties. Yet last month the U.S. Catholic hierarchy declared that these missions are "a disturbing factor in our international relations" and are "offensive to the dignity of our Southern brothers, their culture and their religion." Last fortnight the Catholic Digest made further charges (TIME...
Thus the castor bean will flourish from Illinois and Indiana to Texas, at least until the China trade is restored. The Rio Grande Valley of Texas has already jumped into production on the basis of four crops per year on each farm. The first commercial castor-oil crushing plant went into operation at Brownsville last spring, ready to process a million pounds of oil this year...