Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American flags flew in the streets of London last week and in Sydney crowds sang The Star-Spangled Banner. In Rio de Janeiro one Candido Botelho, a baritone, became the star of the Urea Casino floor show when he sang God Bless America in English against a backdrop of U. S. and Brazilian flags, with chorus girls wearing red, white & blue uniforms...
During Prohibition I served on a commission with Colonel Donovan to adjust the water rights of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado on the Rio Grande River. I was rushing through the hotel lobby in Santa Fe one very cold night and met Colonel Donovan. He said: "Where are you going in such a hurry?" I said: "I am going up to Major Burges' room and get me the biggest drink of Bourbon whiskey that ever came out of El Paso-come on and go with me." He said: "No, however much I would like to, yet I carry...
Much water has flowed since 1894 between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Tex., on the silty ever-changing banks of the Rio Grande-but not enough to wash the word chamizal from long Mexican memories. In Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies last week Deputy Professor (of the National University) José Betancourt Pérez rose to spout: "Mexico cannot believe in the Good Neighbor policy if the United States does not comply with its obligations in the Chamizal case...
...Spanish chamizal means brush patch, and a 600-acre strip of previously Mexican brush was left low and dry on the U. S. side of the river when the Rio Grande changed course after a flood in 1864. In 1894 a Mexican who owned part of the strip claimed it was Mexican territory and for years boundary commissions argued Mexican claims, U. S. counterclaims. In 1911 a Canadian arbitrator ruled that the international boundary followed the course of the river as it was in 1864, but where that might have been, no one knew for sure. So Chamizal has stayed...
...second half of the program is devoted to some waltzes from Johann Strauss's oriental opera, La Reine Indigo, Constant Lambert's jazzy, flashy, but not too consequential Rio Grande, and the opening chorus from Verdi's Othello...