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Soon M. Laval got thus patriotic guarantee he sought by a smash vote of 500 to 78, the largest majority his Government has won on an important issue this year. But Deputy Henri Tasso arose to croak like Epic Poet Tasso...
...announced that the new government would wreak no political vengeances, punish only the criminal misuse of public funds. His formal assumption of office was in minor key. In civilian afternoon dress he descended a flight from his apartment on the palace third floor to a reception room where General Tasso Fragaso, head of the military junta, pronounced him in authority. He named a provisional cabinet. Other palace rooms were filled with officials and their wives. The populace waited along the avenues for his parade by motor. Dr. Washington Luis, a prisoner mean while in Copacabana Fortress, stubbornly refused to resign...
...Silence! Respect!" The coup d'etat in Rio de Janeiro, contrary to many U. S. newspaper stories and headlines last week, was not featured by the resignation of venerable, white-bearded President Washington Luis. What happened was this: at 1 p. m. Federal General Tasso Fragoso and Federal General Jaoa de Deus Menna Barreto, both natives of Rio Grande do Sul, approached the presidential palace at the head of a body of officers, announced that they and virtually the whole body of federal officers in the capital had decided to take over the government as a military junta...
...Tasso's epic poem, Jerusalem Delivered, was Van Dyck's inspiration for the painting. Armida, a lovely sorceress, tempts Knight Rinaldo from his crusade against the infidel in Jerusalem. The canvas shows Rinaldo, with half his armor off, lolling sublimely in the caresses of Armida and her sprites. Van Dyck painted it expressly for Charles I in 1629 and 1630. It has been in England ever since, until Knoedler & Co. recently bought it, shipped it to Manhattan. Jacob Epstein first saw it in Knoedler's London galleries...
...History 7 one of the many series of lectures which I always am tempted to attend in block, contrary as that may be to the fundamental principles of my existence. In Emerson J, today. Thursday and Saturday, he will lecture on sixteenth century Italian literature, the period that produced Tasso and Ariosto...