Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welcomed his wife home from England ; greeted swart, mustached Ecuadorian President Dr. Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio, in the U.S. on a state visit...
...congratulatory message to President Roosevelt was drafted by the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense of the Hemisphere (set up by the Rio conference in January). But it went unsigned by representatives of the two countries which have not yet broken diplomatically with the Axis. Chile's delegate was absent. Argentina's abstained from voting. However, Chile's President Juan Antonio Ríos sent a personal message to Franklin Roosevelt, promising increased production of vital materials and control of Nazi propaganda and espionage, praising the African operations as "guaranteeing the security of this hemisphere...
Already he is in fact flying both freight and passengers between Central America and Miami on a charter basis. Moreover, he has of late won support from under-airlined Brazil by flying strategic materials in and out of Rio (two months ago he formed a $500,000 subsidiary, one-third owned by Brazil's famed Taves family). In addition his year-old British West Indian Airways has relieved the hard-pressed West Indies by carrying an average load of 1,700 passengers, 15,000 Ib. of express, 2,300 Ib. of mail a month out of Port of Spain...
Publisher Allen had worked hard for his decorations. More of a Western Hemisphere propagandist than a newspaperman, he has been friends with Mexican Presidents-left, right or center-from Calles to Avila Camacho. Now 46, he has been scurrying back and forth across the Rio Grande for 26 years. He understands Mexicans and they understand...
Died. Sebastian Cardinal Lame da Silveira Cintra, 60; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. He was made Cardinal in 1930, the same year intervened in the revolution that put Getulio Vargas in power, was credited with saving the life of incumbent Washington Luis. While the revolutionaries' guns were trained on Guanabara Palace where President Luis had holed up for a stand to the death, the Cardinal gained entrance, found Luis, talked to him for half an hour, persuaded him to abdicate...