Word: sao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March 31-International coffee growers' conference; at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Purpose: to restrict Output to Demand. Last such conference: 1902, at New York...
...chief job is that of board chairman, since 1921, of the Sao Paulo (Brazil) Railway. Thus he brings to Canada important contacts "down under," may do as much to get the Dominion-Latin American trade as the "Empire Salesman" is doing on his tour (see p. 20). Darkest Horse Bessborough is in diamonds as deputy board chairman (since 1924) of the South African De Beers Consolidated Mines...
...considered "strong." Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco used to represent Brazil at League of Nations meetings, is the Brazilian diplomat best known in Europe. Minister of Finance Jose Maria Whitaker is a former President of the Banco do Brasil and of the Banco Commercial do Estado de Sao Paulo. Acts of the new Cabinet: 1) declared the Brazilian Congress retroactively dissolved on Oct. 3 last, the day the revolution began; 2) placed responsibility for payment of obligations incurred by the Washington Luis Government since Oct. 3 upon the officials who authorized the expenditures; 3) postulated that, since the Brazilian...
...Janeiro and Sao Paulo last week, Brazilian publishers were picking up the pieces left by the wild mobs that looted, sacked and wrecked pro-Washington Luis newspaper offices at the end of Brazil's revolution (TIME...
...great coffee city of Sao Paulo, capital of that state, more newspapers were sacked and a "Bastille" fell. In this building, the dread Cambucy prison, the mob found what were said to be "man whips" and "wooden instruments of torture." Soon mobsters ignited the infamous prison (after setting free all prisoners), cheered while it burned...