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This week Vargas backers rioted in the streets. Tough Joao Alberto Lins de Barros, chief of the powerful federal police force, resigned, and Getulio's sinister, trigger-happy brother, Benjamin, replaced him. Canny old War Minister General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro also stepped out. The commander of the Rio de Janeiro military district ordered all enlisted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel to report to their barracks. The city tensed; U.S. officials ordered all U.S. sailors off the streets...
...hour after the landing, Fireman First Class Aurelio Tassone of Milford, Mass. was roaring along on his 20-ton 'dozer when he spotted an enemy strongpoint. Skirting the coconut-logged bunker, he came at it from the rear. Bullets banged off the big blade which he had raised as a shield. The tractor rolled on like its armored offspring, the tank...
Said he "nonpolitically": 1) the G.O.P. was wholly to blame for the recent scandal-scented election of scandal-scarred Supreme Court Justice Thomas A. Aurelio (TIME, Nov. 15); 2) the recent G.O.P. state victories really meant nothing...
Error Four. At the polls last week, precinct leaders of both parties took a realistic view of a plain political fact: for voters unused to splitting tickets, an attempt to vote against Aurelio might spoil the whole ballot. It was easier, and safer, to forget all about Aurelio and urge the straight ticket...
...Aurelio polled 267,000 votes, won even though his two opponents polled a higher total between them. A State Supreme Court Justice had been named, not by the district's 630,000 voters, but by one gangster...