Word: sao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement new to Latin American revolutions came from the revolutionists of Sao Paulo last week, leaders in Brazil's civil war against the Rio de Janeiro Government of Provisional President Getulio Vargas. So many enthusiasts had volunteered for the rebel army that the lists were full and the books closed with a complement of 60,000 men-all that Sao Paulo arsenals, armories and munitions plants can take care of. Tardy volunteers must take their places on the waiting list, to be called as casualties warrant...
Revolution in coffee-growing Sao Paulo State bumbled along last week with much talk, little action save an inspired move by Rio de Janeiro's police chief. Through all Brazilian papers he announced that students, radicals and other sympathizers with the Sao Paulo revolutionists might assemble by the obelisk at 10 a. m. Sunday morning. Army trucks would be waiting for them there; they would be given a free ride to Sao Paulo to join the revolution if they so desired. Any revolutionists who refused the ride and thereafter made trouble would be jailed and "dealt with severely...
...left. . . . The most likely Republican nominee for Vice-President is Nicholas Roosevelt, who, as Governor of Costa Rica in the Caribbean, has been bringing the blessings of American civilisation to that negroid dependency of the U. S. A. Nicholas is Teddy's son."* Last May the Sao Paulo, Brazil, Diario National, reporting Franklin Roosevelt's progress towards the nomination, ran an old-fashioned linecut of the late great T. R. Such ignorance in far lands is not surprising but, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's managers well appreciate, such ignorance is not confined to far lands. Last fortnight...
...Rebel forces from Sao Paulo State, Brazil's "Mother of Revolutions," repulsed Federal troops in a hot fight on their own ground, circulated rumors that "Provisional President Getulio Vargas is about to resign...
...Visible 20 mi. away, sculptured by Frenchman Paul-Maximilien Landowski, the mammoth statue represents ten years of planning and construction at a cost of $250,000 donated in small amounts by the Brazilian faithful. His Holiness the Pope sent blessings, appointed Sebastian Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra, Archbishop of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, to be Papal Legate at the dedication ceremonies...