Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edition of about 30,000 copies a week to Latin America ever since last year. Here too the roll of TIME'S subscribers is a most distinguished one-including the presidents of six of our sister republics and a long list of important English-reading people from the Rio Grande to the Strait of Magellan. For example, the Consul General of Peru looked through the names of our subscribers in his country and was "very much impressed with the high representation in cultural and intellectual circles as well as the large amount of big business concerns and banking institutions...
...first pictures of U.S. civilian prisoners in Japanese camps reached the U.S. last week (forwarded by plane when the exchange ship Gripsholm touched briefly at Rio). They showed children (see cut) and grown-ups bearing up not too badly in confinement, but the pictures did not tell the worst...
...guns to the Vargas contingents massing at Minas Geraes. When Vargas became President, Pedro Ernesto became prefect of the Federal District (Brazilian equivalent of mayor of the District of Columbia). This was a job which gave Pedro Ernesto the chance he had wanted: he labored to improve conditions in Rio's slums; he built schools, free clinics, city hospitals...
Five years ago Pedro Ernesto was set free. Exiled temporarily to Minas Geraes, he returned, when things quieted down, to Rio and his own hospital and patients. He shunned politics. On his birthday last year the Candelaria church, Rio's biggest and smartest, sang masses for Pedro Ernesto at each of its nine altars. Today, in the vestibule of the Municipal Hall, stands a bust of him which slum mothers point out to their children, telling them that all they paid for Pedro Ernesto's services were small gifts of bananas...
Penning two wrathful letters, Huaraca XXVI signed them with the imperial three feathers and crown and sent them off to rap the knuckles of the guilty parties: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ecuador's President Carlos Arroyo del Rio. Then the imperial temper cooled. Huaraca XXVI was ready to lease his land to the U.S. for the war's duration for an "adequate rental...