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Word: rio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Jessie Herron Stutesman. ¶ Mrs. Henry Drought asked President Hoover to attend the sooth anniversary celebration of the construction of the Spanish Governor's Palace at San Antonio, Tex. next March. Another Texas caller was National Republican Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, ''Red-Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande." ¶ Widespread is the Washington belief that Postmaster General Brown wants to succeed Charles Curtis as Vice President in 1932. Going to Cabinet meeting last

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 15, 1930 | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...America are of international interest, and have been appearing frequently in the press during the last few years. Professor Haring's lectures and the assigned reading, though it is uneven in merit, are sufficient to give a general and somewhat superficial knowledge of the course of events below the Rio Grande during the past century. The absence of a required thesis may be an added attraction for some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confidential Guide to Courses | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...Tribe. On horseback, Desmond Holdridge, 24, explorer for the Brooklyn Museum, rode for 30 days from the mouth of the Amazon River to Rio Brasco in the jungle country of Brazil, close to the Venezulean border. With him went a native horse thief, the only guide brave enough to accompany him. In the heart of the jungle he found the Pishauko tribe, known to white men by name only. Originally a plains people, the Pishauko fled into the jungle to escape becoming slaves to Spanish conquerors. The natives worship before a symbol which looks like a crucifix, chant services before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...Sunday School 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sunday Schools | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...American Airways and New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Lines, September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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