Word: brazill
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...make up the largest proportion of the crop, an early season drought deprived trees of needed moisture. Cocoa figures are notoriously hard to get but when harvest time came on the Gold Coast in October, crop estimate for that area dropped from 260,000 ton to 235,000. In Brazil, whose bahia crop is the world's second largest, plantations were kept up better during cocoa's dark days, and total world shipments actually rose from 542,000 tons in 1929 to 675,000 in 1935. Yet so important is the crop of African beans that their sudden...
...moments before, he had opened the Inter-American Peace Conference with many flattering references to "the illustrious President Roosevelt." The voice from the gallery, well he knew, was that of his own son, handsome Liborio Justo, who only recently had humiliated the President by being deported from Brazil as an undesirable Red. Next day Buenos Aires' papers tactfully refrained from identifying the one voice in South America lifted against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose supercharged personality was in the course of bewitching a second continent...
...foreign service from taking alien wives. The order was in accord with the State Department's anxiety over heightening national animosities, which has caused widespread reshuffling of its representatives who seemed likely to be unduly affected by attachments in the lands of their assignments Italy, France, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Portugal and Turkey have similar regulations against diplomatic marriages to aliens. But most informed observers traced the U. S. order's origin to the inconvenience to which Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was put during his Ambassadorial stay in Moscow...
...Pillars of Peace immediately. To observers unfamiliar with the workings of human nature on such occasions, the Conference seemed to rise in a tempest of aspiration toward Peace. At this moment, however, Mr. Oswaldo Aranha, who ordinarily resides in Washington, D. C. and who as the Ambassador of Brazil is a constant professional acquaintance of the Secretary of State, sprang to his feet. His unanswerable argument was that if at a Conference one delegate can ask everyone to drop everything and vote his measure, then so can every other delegate. To meet this unpleasant fact of life, conferences many years...
...Brazil's Foreign Minister, Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, one of the biggest businessmen in São Paulo, owner of vast coffee plantations, a student of economics and diplomacy, the kind of man who wears comfortable and badly wrinkled linen suits, is not interested in social functions and rides to his office in full state behind a chauffeur and a liveried footman...