Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This new technique has permitted the MARCH OF TIME to bring you the voices of some of our TIME & LIFE correspondents like Hart Preston (in Ankara), Harry Zinder (in Cairo), Steve Laird (in London), Holland McCombs (in Rio), Bob Sherrod and Teddy White (in Australia), Felix Belair (in Washington) and 14 others who spoke from all sorts of unexpected places. And several times our editors (like Military Expert Roy Alexander, or Foreign News Editor Wilder Hobson) have gone on the air as news commentators to give you their expert judgment on some important development...
Establishment of the bases, under a Good Neighbor agreement, had the hearty endorsement of Ecuador's liberal, hemisphere-minded President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio. The U.S. had been negotiating for them since 1940, last year granted a $500,000 RFC loan for the "commercial improvement" of Albermarle Island, largest of the Galápagos group. (Navy-minded Franklin Roosevelt cruised among the islands on the U.S.S. Houston...
...offer to serve in the Brazilian Army, which promptly made him an honorary brigadier general (TIME, Sept. 7), was wildly popular among the Argentines. It embarrassed President Castillo as Teddy Roosevelt once embarrassed neutral Woodrow Wilson by proposing to fight for Belgium. This week General Justo flew to Rio in the private plane of Brazil's President Getulio Vargas as guest of honor for the Brazilian national holiday. At Santos Dumont Airfield he got a roaring welcome from 30,000 Brazilians. All this raised General Justo's chances of succeeding President Castillo in 1943. President Castillo was particularly...
...make somebody else rich"), but to the Indian there is still only one man whose voice is magic. He is another Indian, a man born to poverty who became a great revolutionist, a fireball reformist and an enduring popular hero-Lázaro Cárdenas y del Rio...
...more Brazilian cooperation but probably more competition too. Thus Brazilians are sure to ask Washington for sleek U.S.-made transports to bolster Condor's fleet of 23 Junkers and Focke-Wulf transports. Meanwhile Brazil toys with a deal to give Argentina's Corporation a route to Rio if Condor gets a route to Buenos Aires...