Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheel of vast Brazil for seven years has sat dressy little President Getulio Vargas, who elected himself the first time in 1930 by throwing President-elect Julio Prestes in jail and was legally "reelected" for his present term which expires next year. Last week even the remotest of Brazil's jungle towns heard the news they had long been awaiting: that Strong Man Vargas is content to abide by Brazil's Constitution which forbids him to succeed himself in January's presidential election. Chosen in Rio de Janeiro by an all-party conclave as the "official...
...pensions of from 75% to 100% of salary, & 6-day vacations with pay. The employers' syndicate, dismissing the pensions and vacations as "exaggerated and impossible," offered successively a $1.20 and then a $1.33 minimum wage, a 40-hour week split into five days instead of the five seven-hour days and one five-hour day the union demanded. These proposals were turned down as promptly as everyone expected, and red-&-black strike flags continued to fly peaceably over orderly picket lines. Since in Mexico any form of strikebreaking is heinously unconstitutional, no worker was afraid of being displaced...
...performers headed by Maribel Yerxa Vinson; performances of The Drunkard, the hiss-the-villain melodrama which had a long run in Manhattan in 1934; Tony Sarg's marionettes. The management declared flatly that this year there would be no "peep shows" or "gyp joints." Last week the first seven days' attendance stood...
...savages, waving grass. Goriest scenes are young Masai tribesmen sucking up the blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall, and the mystic snake dance of the Mariari cult...
...Negro Boxer John Henry Lewis: a technical knockout over Bob Olin, after flooring him for a count of seven in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout, in St. Louis; thus retaining the world's light-heavyweight title he won from Olin...