Word: brazill
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...piled up a lot of goods in order to force high prices from consumers, was liable to get his ears chopped off. Modern monopolies are forestallers incorporated, and are punished, within a particular nation, through anti-trust laws. But no laws yet exist against monopolies (forestallings) in international trade. Brazil controls coffee, Russia platinum, Chile saltpetre, Germany and France potash, Great Britain tin and rubber...
...Janeiro, capital of the United States of Brazil, a republic larger than the 48 states...
...there was inaugurated last week, President Washington Luiz, until recently Governor of the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo.* As President Luiz took the oath of office, before the Chamber and Senate in joint session, he became the eleventh Chief Executive of Brazil since the Brazilian Empire was overthrown in 1889. Brazilians and Portuguese reflected last week, with opposite emotions, that the King of Portugal was also King of Brazil until famed Dom Pedro, son of King Joao VI of Portugal, was chosen "Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender" of Brazil in 1822. His son, Dom Pedro II, reigned as Emperor from...
German diplomats who had never heard of Poet Claudel remembered the Paul Claudel who began his career in the French consular service more than a. generation and a half ago (as vice consul at New York) and has served as French Minister to Brazil and Denmark and French Ambassador to Japan...
...present cannibalism is practised in British West Africa, on certain of the South Sea Islands, and among the tribes of the Upper Amazon, Brazil. The British West African cult known as the Human...