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...yesterday's hearing Local 26 of the AFL-CIO presented five witnesses supporting their position that Vladimir Arruda should be rehired after he was convicted of attempting to set fire to a local Portugese social club. He is currently on three years probation for attempted arson...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Arbitrator Hears Union's Case In Dispute on Arruda Rehiring | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

...clerk of the Middlesex County District Court issued a complaint against Bruce Rockcastle, industrial relations manager for Cambion, on a charge of assault and battery on Marie Louisa Arruda...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Cambion Official Charged With Assault on Worker | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

According to Allen Rosenberg, attorney for Local 262 of United Electrical, Radio and Machinery Workers of America, Arruda said Rockcastle "propelled her across the sidewalk by a blow to her chest with his elbow" in a picket-line incident on the afternoon of September...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Cambion Official Charged With Assault on Worker | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

...pointed at another, yelling, "The evil god Exu has entered into him." then splashed a bottle of alcohol over him, touched it off with a candle, and watched his blazing victim run shrieking through the crowds. A young shop clerk, possessed by the spirit of the amorous Indian god Arruda, wrestled a pretty woman to the ground, died when her husband emptied his .45 into him. The next morning the beaches were littered with grisly debris-fetishes and bottles, blood, clothing, and the occasional headless carcass of a sacrificed chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spirits in Brazil | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...loophole in the constitution by providing annulments for incompatibility-under strict controls. The impossibility of legally ending a marriage, he believed, was the root of intolerable matrimonial tangles in Brazil. At every pause in his 98-page speech, Carneiro was rebutted by a sharp-witted Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor Arruda Camara, who is also a Deputy. Monsignor Arruda held out against the slightest relaxation of the constitutional provision. Cried he to Carneiro: "Where the constitution says 'marriage is an indissoluble tie,' Your Excellency says 'dissoluble.' Where the constitution says 'no,' Your Excellency says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Land of No Divorce | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

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