Word: sao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snake-eaters, Bandits. "Robbed and maltreated by bandits. Have Nambikuara and Pareccis collections," said a cablegram dated May 5 at Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Francis Gow-Smith, explorer and ethnologist for the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). The Museum was relieved, having feared him lost in Matto Grosso (thick forest) Province, Brazil. He had previously been reported as having eaten Christmas dinner with Commander Dyott in an Indian village. He had described the Nambikuara Indians as: most primitive; eating only raw food (snakes included) ; wearing a macaw feather in their noses; and no clothes. Mr. Gow-Smith, more...
...Chinese Minister to Washington, Sao-ke Alfred Sze, reputedly cabled that he was ready to join the others in switching his allegiance from Peking to the Cantonese Nationalists who have captured the Southern half of China (TIME...
...there was inaugurated last week, President Washington Luiz, until recently Governor of the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo.* As President Luiz took the oath of office, before the Chamber and Senate in joint session, he became the eleventh Chief Executive of Brazil since the Brazilian Empire was overthrown in 1889. Brazilians and Portuguese reflected last week, with opposite emotions, that the King of Portugal was also King of Brazil until famed Dom Pedro, son of King Joao VI of Portugal, was chosen "Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender" of Brazil in 1822. His son, Dom Pedro II, reigned as Emperor from...
Likewise significant are the recent visits, to Angora (Turkish Capital) of the Persian Foreign Minister Mirza Abdul Hussein Khan Timurtash and the Chinese Minister to the U. S., Dr. Sao-ke Alfred...
...France. 3) Yellow Fever-eliminated it through both Americas (only three cases in the year). 4) Malaria-proved that paris green prevents breeding of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 5) Medical Education-gave money to U. S. universities or schools at Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Trinidad, Sao Paolo, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Brussels, Utrecht, Strasbourg, Beirut, Singapore, Bankok, Montreal, Peking. 6) Nursing-help to training schools in U. S., China, Brazil, France, Jugoslavia and Poland. 7) Biology-aid to Johns Hopkins, Yale, Iowa State. 8) Fellowships- to 842 men and women from 44 different countries. 9) League of Nations-traveling...