Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intervention by any one nation or group of nations in the domestic affairs of any American country. Instead, he advocated joint intervention against any nation which violates "the elementary rights of man and of the citizens." The Uruguayans had good reason to fear violators of democratic rights. Across the Rio de la Plata, the hard-booted Argentine colonels tramped and threatened...
Foreign Minister Rodriguez intends to submit his proposal to the Latin American Conference, recently postponed as a rebuke to Argentina, but now rescheduled to meet in Rio de Janeiro next spring...
...small, shy artist Candido Portinari, famed portrayer of undernourished coffee workers and slick society matrons. Said Portinari, explaining his conversion to politics: "We must all take our posts in this decisive phase of history, whose march no force can detain, because it is more powerful than the atomic bomb." Rio political analysts thought Communist Candidate Fiuza might nose out ex-War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra for second place. But most Brazilians were betting on General Eduardo Gomes to win the Presidency. Whoever won would have a man-size job bringing order out of the economic chaos and fraud turning...
Beatrice Bishop Berle, physician-wife of U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Adolph A. Berle Jr., was made an honorary member of the Rio Society of Medicine and Surgery, in recognition of her efforts to improve public health in Rio...
...Rio, a bartender took down a Vargas photograph, prepared to throw it away. Then he reconsidered. Said he: "I am going to save the frame. Maybe I will need...