Word: abreu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other candidates for the P.D.P. nomination immediately surfaced: Senate Majority Leader Luis Negrón López, 58, and Santiago Polanco Abreu, 47, the island's commissioner in Washington. Waiting to profit from the P.D.P.'s current split is Industrialist Luis Ferré, head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party...
Adhemar was intent on installing his own man, but Castello Branco picked out Abreu Sodré, a reform-minded São Paulo lawyer, for the Governor's job. Since the election was to be decided by the state legislature, where the revolution held a bandwagon majority, Adhemar's only hope was to woo the assemblymen's votes, and he went about it with all the fury that money and patronage could buy. He handed out 13,000 state jobs in five days, sometimes nominating as many as three people to the same position. And when Castello...