Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen years ago a young Brazilian, Virgilino Ferreira da Silva, persuaded the trusting Assembly of the State of Pernambuco to make him an honorary captain in its constabulary so that he might avenge his father who had been murdered in Pernambuco's hinterland. The Assembly made a mistake...
...that held four rows of shells, and was so broad that he could not bend at the waist. He killed so many men and stuck their decapitated heads on sharpened stakes that he was nicknamed Lampeao, "the Lamp Post." Hair by hair he pulled out sheriffs' beards. Dusky Brazilian virgins blanched at his reputation for rape. He would cut out the tongue of a woman who told him a lie. But whenever he raided a village he distributed all the beer in town free...
...Latin American states have long been as vexed as Rumania at the sharp German practice of buying huge quantities of raw materials on credit or with blocked marks, then selling these goods for cash at dumping prices, often in direct competition with the producing countries. On June 30, the Brazilian Government ordered the Bank of Brazil to cease buying blocked or aski marks, thus forcing Germany to pay in genuine currency for any Brazilian goods Germans want. Angrily the German Government decreed last week the complete suspension of German purchases from Brazil and the whole Nazi press joined in flaying...
...with the reciprocal trade treaty effective Jan. 1, 1936. Best argument to induce Brazil to take more U. S. exports was that the U. S. normally buys with internationally exchangeable dollars twice as much from Brazil as Brazil buys from the U. S. Coffee accounts for about 80% of Brazilian exports to the U. S. Later, however, the U. S. discovered another powerful trade persuader. In 1937 the U. S. agreed to sell to Brazil gold up to a value of $60,000,000 to steady Brazilian exchange. Also helpful to U. S.-Brazilian trade was a joint commission suggested...
Early this year German exports to Brazil began to decline, U. S. exports to rise. By treaty a quota is placed on the amount of some products Germany can buy in Brazil with the "compensated" marks. Early this year she used up all the compensated marks allowed for buying Brazilian cotton. She then pulled an economic trick by buying 300,000 bags of quota-free cocoa with compensated marks. Brazil can easily sell her cocoa in a free world market for good currency. By this "purchase" Germany 1) tried to flood Brazil with compensated marks so that Brazil would...