Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Picked up in the palace grounds with wounds in the head and abdomen was 21-year-old Dom Juan of Orleans & Bragança, son of Dom Pedro, official pretender to the Brazilian throne. Reported shot in the leg as he tried to join the fighting was Dom Juan's 25-year-old brother, Pedro. These incidents led to speculations that back of the Integralistas was a move to restore the monarchy. Founded in 1822 by Dom Pedro I, son of Portugal's King Dom Juan VI whom Napoleon frightened into the New World, the Brazilian Empire lasted...
...Reginald Francis Sedgley, 61, English-born gunsmith and firearms inventor; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. In 1936 he admitted to the Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry that he had bought machine guns from the U. S. Army for 12$ apiece, reconditioned them, sold them to Brazilian revolutionists...
...which they could point with pride: a vaccine to conquer yellow fever. From 1900 (when the late Dr. Walter Reed proved that a mosquito transmitted yellow fever from man to man) until 1932, sanitary experts fought yellow fever by taking measures to prevent mosquito breeding. In 1932. however, Brazilian medical men discovered yellow fever cases in jungles where no yellow fever mosquitoes existed. How jungle yellow fever is transmitted remains a mystery...
...Italian good will flight had been a mild fiasco. To avoid appearing Fascist-minded, the Brazilian Government gave the fliers a cool welcome. Meanwhile, the Buenos Aires Critica, chief anti-Fascist organ of the Argentine press, decried the flight so bitterly that Argentina was omitted from the itinerary...
Minas Geraes, the most populous Brazilian State, still retained this week its popular Governor Benedicto Valladares. By decrees last week President Vargas completed his work of kicking out the governors of the other 19 States, replacing each with a federal interventor. Ex-Governor José Antonio Flores da Cunha of the State of Rio Grande do Sul was ordered tried on charges of having ordered $1,000,000 worth of munitions from Germany, recently, apparently had hoped to use them to right what he considers States' wrongs...