Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rio's Communists blew their horns and the notes were echoed from the provinces. The Party had accomplishments to report and it seized an occasion-the 48th birthday of its magnetic leader, Luis Carlos Prestes-to tell the world. Throughout Brazil, at dozens of picnics and other celebrations, the comrades sang such ideological lyrics as "Take off your shirt, Joe, the time of Fascism has passed."* They also saluted the past year's items of progress: 1) emergence as the Hemisphere's largest Communist Party (120,000 militant members); 2) collection of $600,000 for bigger Party...
...Communists getting in Latin America? Four months ago, the New York Times decided to find out. On a 16,000-mile tour of every capital south of the Rio Grande it sent burly William (Bill) Lawrence, onetime Moscow correspondent. Last week, Lawrence was back and the Times printed his colorless, cautious report. Highlights...
Pearls & Pirates. Once Cartagena, metropolis of the Spanish Main, was the great port where the gold of Peru, the silver of Bolivia and the pearls of Rio Hacha (in Colombia) had awaited shipment in the annual convoy to Spain. The treasures drew freebooters and pirates-English and French; even today the names of Hawkins and Drake and Morgan are as familiar to Cartageneros as the names of Dion O'Bannion and Al Capone are to Chicagoans...
Senator George (D-Ga) joined in Vandenberg's proposal to call the Rio conference. He told an interviewer he believes "perhaps the State Department has been putting too much emphasis" on Argentina's obligations first to get rid of pro-Nazi elements...
WASHINGTON, January 12 Demands for casing the United States policy toward Argentina were raised in the Capital today to reinforce the proposal of Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) to call the Rio De Janeiro conference immediately to negotiate permanent hemisphere defense...