Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British reply was made as the Inter-American Neutrality Committee met in Rio de Janeiro. Opening the first session of the meeting, President Getulio Vargas of Brazil declaimed that the Americas had as much right to establish a peace zone as European nations had to proclaim a war zone. This fine thought was not followed by any practical suggestions. In Buenos Aires, Argentina's Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo suggested that if Great Britain and France would agree to send no more warships into the safety zone, it might be possible to get Germany to promise the same...
...listened long and often to the jungly songs of Brazil's Indians, the hot, oozing rhythms of Brazil's primitive Negroes. With these in his inner ear, he started to write music-unorthodox, a new musical dialect made from aboriginal shouts and strummings. The salons of Rio de Janeiro made faces at it, thought it barbaric. But the peões in the thatched huts...
...energies on spreading music in Brazil. At Sao Paulo, in 1931, he staged the biggest musical event Brazil had ever known by conducting a chorus of 10,000 voices and an orchestra of 400 through a gigantic marathon of native music. Following year, he repeated the performance in Rio's Fluminense Stadium with 18,000 school children. When the National Education Congress met at Rio in 1935 he had a chorus of 30,000 and an orchestra...
...Museum. Its able abettor was the State Department's new (1938) Division of Cultural Relations, formed to combat fascist penetration of Latin America, economic and intellectual, by organizing a Pan-American export trade in ideas. First of a series that may eventually include every nation south of the Rio Grande, the Argentine exhibition will tour the U. S. from coast to coast after it leaves Richmond next month...
...British liners Highland Patriot and Avila Star both reported, upon their arrival in Rio de Janeiro last week, that they had been attacked unsuccessfully by submarines near the Canary Islands on their way out from England. The Canaries, off the African Coast, belong to Spain. British warships were reported looking there for a U-boat base or supply ship...