Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture week at the White House. Harry Truman saw and heard himself in newsreels taken during his trip to Rio, re-enjoyed the horseplay of his Equator crossing. After lunch each day, the President watched a few innings of the World Series games on a White House television set, but never sat through to the last innings. Cinemactor Edward Arnold dropped in and gave him a fat set of pictures of U.S. Presidents, including...
Ever since his return from Rio, President Truman had tried to make up his mind whether or not he should call a special session of Congress. There was increasing pressure on him to call one. Without some stopgap, immediate help, some European nations might not be able to hold out. But there was no telling what...
...film, made up of extracts from thousands of feet of celluloid shot all over the world during the past six years, was first released in Rio de Janeiro at the time of President Truman's visit there...
...touchy little incident at Trieste. The top brass got a little excited. Jimmy Forrestal thought it was time to show some of the old hustle. He talked to Clark Clifford at the White House. Off went a radio to the President, who was aboard the Missouri returning from Rio. Forrestal was all set to get the ceremony out of the way in a hurry. From the Missouri, Harry Truman radioed back: go ahead; in view of the international situation, the U.S. should have a Secretary of Defense in office...
Great crowds of cariocas packed Rio's Avenida Rio Branco to cheer the return of an exile. After 17 years in foreign lands, white-goateed Washington Luiz Pereira de Souza was back in Brazil.* When Getulio Vargas drove him out of the presidency in 1930 and set up a dictatorship, Washington Luiz swore never to return until Brazil was securely and constitutionally democratic. He came back when he decided that his conditions had been...