Word: americo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still safe in a State of War was Brazil this year when Strong Man Vargas, constitutionally unable to succeed himself, announced he would hold an election January 3, nominated as his Presidential candidate squint-eyed José Americo de Almeida (TIME, June 14). But big Brazil reacted unexpectedly to this news. Commotion broke out in the Rio Grande do Sul bailiwick of swashbuckling Governor José Flores da Cunha, whom President Vargas had to replace with a Federal military interventor. A temporary lifting of the state of war for campaign purposes soon had Brazil's Leftists noisily...
...abide by Brazil's Constitution which forbids him to succeed himself in January's presidential election. Chosen in Rio de Janeiro by an all-party conclave as the "official" (i. e., majority) candidate for the presidency last fortnight, President Vargas' onetime Minister of Communications José Americo de Almeida was scheduled to sit in front while his master Vargas climbs peaceably in back...
...harmless bureaucrat chiefly remembered for reducing electric rates in the Rio de Janeiro Federal District, President-designate Americo will be amenable to back-seat suggestion. His sole January opposition, outside of noisy but insignificant Fascist and Communist candidates, will consist of onetime Governor Armando Salles de Oliveira of the State of São Paulo, which is still bitterly unreconstructed by the Vargas Revolution...
Students flocked to Hanover's telegraph office, read the list of the dead. They recognized most names. William F. Fullerton, 20, had been an editor of the Daily Dartmouth. Americo De Masi, 20, had been college fencing champion. Edward N. Wentworth Jr., 21, had been on the soccer squad. Harold D. Watson, 21, had sung in the glee club. So it went down the list: Edward and Alfred Moldenke, 21 and 20, only sons of a Manhattan pastor; William M. Smith Jr., 21; Wilmot H. Schooley, 20; John J. Griffin...
Urology: Santiago (Chile-), Dr. Waldemar Coutts; Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Americo Valerio; Mexico City, Dr. Luis Rivero Borrell; Havana, Drs. Arturo Garcia Casariego, Luis F. Rodriguez Molina...