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...honest politician, with a sincere desire to improve the lot of his people and not too many scruples about the means he employs. Brazilians say he can take off his socks without removing his shoes. He is a Gaucho from the rolling cattle country of Rio Grande do Sul, southernmost of Brazil's 20 federal States. His father who is still living was a General and Getulio grew up in Sao Borja, where lived his present Foreign Minister, Oswaldo Aranha. To this day Oswaldo Aranha's old mother tells Getulio just what she thinks of everything he does...
...from Louisiana to Virginia. Half of all U. S. forest fires occur in the South. Convinced that nine-tenths of them (nearly 60,000) were started on purpose, he launched an inquiry in the field of social psychology. He found a "typical area" of 440,000 acres in the southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains inhabited by 1,800 families. The forest people there admitted starting fires, but the reasons they gave were evasive or absurd...
...feel that they would not hesitate to dash in if they sighted a German warship. One German submarine, a 250-ton U-21-type with a boyish crew of 28 aboard (apparently for training) hugged the coast so closely that she went aground off Mandal, Norway's southernmost town. Her captain presented a huge sausage to the first Norwegian fisherman who came along, asked him to pull the U-boat free. The fisherman, after consuming the sausage and praising its quality, notified the nearest naval station and the Nazis were all interned at Horten, with a fine show...
Lending color, if not substance, to this theory was an announcement from the Japanese Imperial Household of the establishment of a "grand national shrine'' to the Sun Goddess on Carooca, southernmost of the Japanese-owned Palau Islands. "The islands have come to occupy a very important position as an advance outpost of Japanese development southward in industry, economy and culture," read the announcement...
...place to see the tourist crop at its verdant best and worst was along a patch of the Atlantic coastline, 350 miles down from the Georgia border, 145 miles up from the southernmost Florida Key. There lies the "Miami area...