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...left. . . . The most likely Republican nominee for Vice-President is Nicholas Roosevelt, who, as Governor of Costa Rica in the Caribbean, has been bringing the blessings of American civilisation to that negroid dependency of the U. S. A. Nicholas is Teddy's son."* Last May the Sao Paulo, Brazil, Diario National, reporting Franklin Roosevelt's progress towards the nomination, ran an old-fashioned linecut of the late great T. R. Such ignorance in far lands is not surprising but, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's managers well appreciate, such ignorance is not confined to far lands. Last fortnight...
...Rebel forces from Sao Paulo State, Brazil's "Mother of Revolutions," repulsed Federal troops in a hot fight on their own ground, circulated rumors that "Provisional President Getulio Vargas is about to resign...
...Earl of Bessborough is not so much interested in gold as in diamonds, railways and margarine. When appointed Governor General of the Dominion of Canada he was board chairman of Britain's gigantic Unilever Ltd. (margarine), chairman of Brazil's coffee-carrying San Paulo Railway, deputy chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines (South Africa), a director of some 30 other corporations. Thus His Excellency is a Big-Business Governor General. Last week he prepared to open for His Majesty in Ottawa a Big Business meeting, the Imperial Economic Conference...
...agreeing to buy Canadian in preference to Argentine beef? The King's subjects have invested over $1,500,000.000 in Argentina. Dare they antagonize that Latin American government? Dare they risk reprisals which could be launched against $1.500.000,000 of British property actually in Argentina? And what about Brazil? What about the Earl of Bessborough's own coffee-carrying railway in that South American state...
...usual without fanfare, Liftschiffbau Zeppelin last week announced its autumn schedule of five round trip flights of the Graf Zeppelin between Friedrichshafen and Pernambuco, Brazil...