Arnold Wald, a prominent Jewish attorney and professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Rio de Janeiro, has been appointed by governor Negrao de Lima of the Province of Guanabara as prosecutor of the province which includes the city of Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Wald, 35, is the son of immigrant parents from Warsaw.
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