Word: janeiro
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...activity,* 33,751,623 scholars were attending 320,620 evangelical Sunday Schools in every part of the world. They also exhorted the scholars to send their pastors, superintendents or missionary superintendents to the eleventh convention of the World's Sunday School Association in July 1932 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, "the best evangelized Latin city in the world...
...Janeiro and Sao Paulo last week, Brazilian publishers were picking up the pieces left by the wild mobs that looted, sacked and wrecked pro-Washington Luis newspaper offices at the end of Brazil's revolution (TIME...
...other newspapers in Rio de Janeiro to share, in lesser degree, the fate of A Noite were Critic, A Ordem, Vanguarda, Gazeta de Noticias, 0 Paiz and A Noticia. Some of them thought to remove their newsprint to comparative safety in the street. But there the rolls were set upon, unwound by urchins...
...junction of Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Beira-Mar stands an obelisk, pride of the city. Last week 16 slouch-hatted gauchos (cowboys) with ponchos over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk...
King Mob. While the generals and prelates of Brazil thus played their roles with dignity, Rio de Janeiro mobs sacked and burned the offices of pro-Washington Luis newspapers (i. e. nearly all the newspapers in the capital), caused a property loss...