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...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...
Miss Anny Ondra, as Monika Boehnicke, a sales girl, scratches her ribs in the various ecstasies of love until the wealthy Americo-German financier is willing to marry her. Walldorf, who is described as a business man, rushes about with his wife alternately trying to pay for clothes that are being repaired, and giving lavish dinners. Monika's idea of paradise is a drunken brawl with much sitting on mirrors and with her mother and father downstairs, weeping...