Word: senhor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word, the representative of Brazil on the Council of the League, Senhor Afranio Mello Franco, announced last week that his government had "irrevocably and finally" instructed him to vote against the admission of Germany to a permanent seat on the League Council unless Brazil is given now a similar permanent seat instead of the non- permanent seat to which she was elected for a year (TIME, Oct. 5) together with Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Uruguay...
Tuesday. Although no French Ministry had yet been assembled, Senor Quinones de Leon (Spain) and Senhor Mello Franco (Brazil) issued implied threats that as nonpermanent Council members they would vote against admitting Germany to a permanent seat unless their nations were at once permanently seated...
...Boston Evening Transcript, a contributor recounted his impressions of Portugal: "I had the benefit of just four interviews, or contacts, on the subject of politics, with Lisbon men during the day. The first was with a grave middle-aged senhor, of superior appearance, who checked our hats at the Monumental Club. I ventured a Viva la, Republica as I passed in my hat. He looked at me in a manner positively icy, and said nothing. I made up my mind that he was a Monarchist.* "Next in conversation with the castellan at the Royal Palace at Cintra. This expansive gentleman...
...note from the Diplomatic Corps at Peking on the bandit incident of last May.* The note was signed by the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba. The imposing document was delivered at the Chinese Foreign Office by Senhor Frei tas, Portuguese Minister to China and doyen of the Diplomatic Corps at Peking. It is difficult to see how the Powers can possibly expect Dr. Koo to take any satisfactory action on the note, because the country is actually in the hands of the Tuchuns ?War Lords?...