Word: suls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rebel Solidarity. The extreme southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, whence the revolution sprang, appeared to have plumped solidly for revolt. The state legislature under no duress voted $500,000 for the rebel army. Said the local Roman Catholic Archbishop, Monsignor John Becker...
...late as last May, in Buenos Aires, he was plotting the present rebellion with revolutionists in Brazil. On the morning of May 10 he left for Rio Grande do Sul in a plane of the Buenos Aires-Paris airmail. The plane fell into the sea off Montevideo. All on board except "Lucky Juan" drowned. He swam lustily ashore...
...Grande do Sul forces are formed of the pick of our youth, and with dignity and honor. The military organization is perfect. The national revolution, a logical consequence of regrettable facts, goes irresistibly on its way to triumph...
President Getulio Vargas of the State of Rio Grande do Sul assumed last week the style of Chief Executive in the revolutionary territory...
Gore. After the capture of leading federal army officers, eight thousand state troops and police surrounded and captured the federal soldiers in Rio Grande do Sul, but skirmishes were many throughout the three disaffected states as the revolution sought to unify and find itself. Two battleships, bearing federal troops and airplanes, at once set out from Rio to make contact with the revolutionists last week. In short order at Sao Paulo 2,000 youths enlisted to fight the rebels. President Washington Luis admitted that "this internal commotion is projected and directed by the governments of the states involved." He predicted...