Word: yeddo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil's Communists last week nominated a presidential candidate who is not (he says) a Communist. Obscure, 52-year-old Yeddo Fiuza, mayor of Petropolis, was as surprised as everyone else when Communist Leader Luis Carlos Prestes put the finger...
...Japan's Yeddo Bay, one afternoon, puffed two preposterous paddle frigates-Mississippi and Susquehanna-and two sloops-of-war-Plymouth and Saratoga. The former were the first steamships ever to appear in Japanese waters. As soon as they dropped anchor a great swarm of picket boats came out to shoo the smoke-breathing monsters away. A spokesman presented himself on one of these, demanding to see the commanding officer. Perry sent a warrant officer, who said that the "Lord of the Forbidden Interior" was of much too high rank to talk with a mere boatman...
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