Word: adhemar
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...military coup ended Vargas' 15-year regime, and the old man withdrew in good order to his ranch near the Uruguayan frontier at Itu. There he got into cowboy breeches and boots, and ostensibly retired from politics. Even after São Paulo's bumptious Governor Adhemar de Barros named him for a presidential comeback (TIME, June 26), Getulio sat on quietly at Itu. As election day (Oct. 3) got closer, the hottest Brazilian political question was whether Getulio still had his old magic, and whether he cared to practice it. Last week Brazilians found...
Hundreds of queremistas were waiting for Vargas at the São Paulo airport when he flew in from Itu, with Adhemar at his side. "He's our little father," cackled a toothless old woman. It took 20 minutes for the police to get Getulio to a car and on his way to the chartreuse-and-blue Palacio dos Campos Eliseos, where São Paulo's great and near-great waited. (Amid the music and toasts, Adhemar had a happy thought for the future: "He'll stay [in the presidency] five years, and then it will...
...Fixit. For whatever good it might do, Adhemar was careful to drop in on War Minister Canrobert Pereira da Costa and Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, both presidential possibilities themselves. One rumor had him offering the foreign ministry to Elder Statesman Oswaldo Aranha. Said Aranha: "Pooh-pooh...
...moment when Brazil's two major parties were still floundering hopelessly in attempts to find candidates of their own, Adhemar, never noted for his humility, turned his ebullient cockiness to good account. He showed off his crowd-drawing prowess at close range, played the self-confident candidate to the hilt. Long after he had flown back to São Paulo, a new samba called Adhemar Dá Jeito (Adhemar Will Fix It) blared from Rio's radios...
...there is no rice, if there are no beans If there is no butter to spread on your bread, If you have no shirt to tuck in your jeans, Take hope! Adhemar dá jeito...