Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this-unlike most other matters of international interest-the whole world has cooperated against the common enemy. French, Swiss, American, British, German, Brazilian, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Mexican investigators have worked together, cheered each other on and helped one another in friendly rivalry...
...were that Hollywood has not yet run out of battle scenes, and that no matter how plentiful the circumstantial evidence, a good woman has yet to be convicted. As the prosecuted Elinor Norton, Claire Trevor remains resolutely good before the advances of a clean American friend, an orchid-ridden Brazilian lover, and (apparently) a shell-shocked and otherwise unstable British husband, whose demise provides Miss Rinehart with a court-room scene and a paralleled denouement. Of all the picture's conclusions, the plainest was that Miss Trevor is worthy of better things than the forcible feeding...
Lord & Master Thyssen, with his wife and daughter, meanwhile faced Brazilian reporters in his suite aboard the German liner Caparcona. "I have relatives in Argentina and I am sailing on to see them" said he. "I need a rest. Reports that I left Germany because I feared an outbreak of violence are absolutely without foundation. I need a vacation as much as anyone else...
...pious sorrow last week the Cardinal-Prefect reminded the world that today no less than 6,000,000 people still live in slavery. He called Catholic attention to "the importance of the Church anti-slavery program as enunciated by Pope Leo XIII"-who in 1888 exhorted his Brazilian bishops to banish slavery from their country in an encyclical flaying "the accursed pest of servitude" and ordering an annual anti-slavery collection taken in Catholic churches...
...orders. Brazil is still a one-crop country but the Government's rigid control of foreign exchange has acted as a protective tariff stimulating domestic industry. Low coffee prices have encouraged cotton growing to such an extent that the Liverpool Cotton Exchange is reported to be considering admitting Brazilian contracts to trading. Brazilian dollar bonds have soared 30% in the past three months...