Word: araujo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pioneers. Two and a half years ago, when husky, high-powered Bernardo Sayao Carvalho Araujo (TIME, April 7, 1947) was opening up the government's Colonia Agricola Nacional just west of Anapolis he made Dr. Fanstone the colony's chief medical officer. The growing colony meant a fresh load for the hospital, but Dr. Jim jammed in more beds, took care of all who came. Last week, as he watched workmen finish a new wing for his hospital, he knew that it would still not be big enough for the need...
...Engineer. In the Colonia the man who has made actuality of an idea is a strapping, suntanned engineer named Bernardo Sayão Carvalho Araujo.* He knows the backlands, understands their need for large-scale immigration, and knows all about their lack of good roads and railways. A leader who wants to know how a man gets along with his neighbors,, how his crops are coming, he calls by first name many of the 15,000 settlers in the Colonia. Last week he was in Rio seeking money for the Colonia, for the Government had paid not a cruzeiro...
...Guatemala President Jorge Ubico, elected in 1931, held a plebiscite in 1935, extended his term until 1943. In El Salvador Vice President General Maximiliano Hernàndez Martinez took office in 1931 after an Army revolt had deposed President Arturo Araujo. Refused recognition by the U. S., he resigned in 1934, ran for the Presidency, was elected in 1935. In 1939 a constitutional convention extended his term until 1945. President Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras took office in 1933, has suppressed at least five attempted revolutions since then. In 1939 Congress extended his term for ten years. In Nicaragua President...