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...semi-permanent Council seat. She threatened last week to demand a permanent seat for herself if Russia gets one. Since the Council can only act by unanimous vote, Poland was thus in a position to blackmail the Council, seemed strongly disposed to make the attempt. In March 1926 Brazil tried similar blackmail when Germany was proposed, deadlocked the Council and finally resigned from the League...
Rising prices for manufactured goods are a dubious business blessing but the benefits of rising commodity prices (and even in terms of gold they have been climbing for eight months) are not so questionable. The foreign trade of Brazil and a half dozen other South and Central American republics is almost wholly dependent on coffee, now selling at 9½¢ against a Depression low of 5¼¢. When rubber jumps from 10¢ per lb. to 17¢ as it has in the past six months, five times five million souls throughout British Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When...
Next fortnight she is scheduled to fly to Rio de Janeiro to be christened Brazilian Clipper by the wife of Brazil's President Vargas. Thereafter in Pan American's Miami-Rio-Buenos Aires service she will cut air travel time from seven days to five...
...warm air was heavy with perfume and the smell of new silk. Buyers who usually paid $100 to get in (refunded on the first order) cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled to ward them in long-skirted evening gowns, sport dresses with Brazil nuts for buttons, coats made of steamer rugs, woolen dresses with oilcloth grapes. Soon the buyers would stream out of the city with notes and gossip on the fashions Paris was about to set the world for the winter...
Because Revolutionist Vargas is a sturdy Roman Catholic, his new constitution forbids divorce and makes church marriages civilly valid. Because Brazil's toughest political problem is States' rights, it creates a Senate to deal with them. For the rest the new constitution requires a majority of Brazilian nationals on the directorates of Brazilian public utilities, sharply limits immigration, favors land squatters and gives women the vote...