Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lone Wolf. In Rio de Janeiro, the police reported the number of loving couples arrested on blacked-out Copacabana Beach...
Brazilians have a joke they like to tell on their popular Dictator-President Getulio Vargas. It concerns Sao Pedro Church, still standing in the middle of Rio de Janeiro's newly constructed, three-mile Getulio Vargas Avenue...
...ucar (Sugar Loaf Mountain) is an outstanding Rio de Janeiro landmark...
...defend before the House of Commons his tragic effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion's key officials-and in 1940 she traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and Quito getting acquainted with many important policymakers south of the Rio Grande...
...Cause. A small clique of powerful, reactionary men has long suppressed democracy in Argentina. Since 1942, when Argentina adhered to the Pan American solidarity pledge at Rio de Janeiro, the power of this clique has been threatened by one vital issue: the question of continued Argentine relations with the Axis. After the June revolution the clique vested real power in the hands of an Army group which Argentines call "The Colonels." The Colonels have opposed a break; the people, awakening to the danger that Argentina might be isolated in the Americas, have increasingly demanded a break...