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...Weight for All. In the most important single race in Brazil's nationwide elections (TIME, Oct. 18), Underdog Quadros was up against ex-Governor Adhemar de Barros. Jânio and Adhemar are both magnificently mustachioed, and Adhemar is almost as expert as Jânio at platform histrionics, but there the resemblance ends. Adhemar, 53, multimillionaire proprietor of a well-oiled political machine, is expensively tailored, hearty of mien and exuberant of speech...
...pupils. From there he went on to the state legislature, where he sponsored a record 2,007 bills (60 passed, including one to provide free gloves for garbagemen). In 1953, still an independent, he ran for mayor of São Paulo, won in a two-to-one landslide. Adhemar de Barros, who had backed another candidate, brushed off Jânio's mayoralty victory: "The people wanted a change ... A lamppost could have...
Francisco Cardoso, the official candidate, had the backing of President Getulio Vargas and Adhemar de Barros, the state's political boss. But that turned out to be no help at all. "Shall we throw the robbers out?" croaked his long-shot opponent, a gaunt, unshaven ex-schoolmaster named Jânio Quadros. Quadros whipped the wave of Paulista protest still higher by pointing out that the government had paved streets in new real-estate developments for its speculator friends at a cost of $4,480,000 a mile, of which $4,000,000 was straight graft. "The people wanted...
...Paulo's No. 1 political enterpriser is Adhemar de Barros. A big, breezy, bumptious man, Adhemar introduced modern machine politics to Brazil, now refers casually to Getulio Vargas as "the man I elected President." He leaves no doubt that he considers himself Vargas' heir. After eight years as governor, he retired from office temporarily in 1950. Adhemar is one of Brazil's richest men, with large interests in Sao Paulo airlines, textiles and candy manufacture, a fortune well above the $50 million mark...
...presidential election. The official count: Vargas, 3,820,560; Briga-deiro Eduardo Gomes, 2,288,105; Christiano Machado, 1,653,521. From his ranch in the south, Getulio began a stately progress toward Rio and next week's inaugural ceremonies. When he met Sao Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros to talk over the new cabinet, so many well-wishers surrounded him that he had to sneak off and hold private chats in the kitchen...