Word: bandeira
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...museum and the rich collection it houses are the almost single-handed achievements of one man-Sao Paulo's Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand ("Chatô") Bandeira de Mello, a short stout press lord with a considerable resemblance to New York's late Fiorello...
Died. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, 75, Brazil's banty rooster of communications, whose interests were as lengthy as his name; of a heart attack; in Sao Paulo. Slick financing and a knack for marketing new ideas brought Chateaubriand an empire of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations that at the time of his death included 89 companies; he helped bring Dictator Getulio Vargas to power in 1930, later helped pull him down. The fire diminished in 1960 after he suffered a cerebral thrombosis flared again in 1962 when he scuttled Janio Quadros' political comeback...
Brazil's Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello-"Chatô" to Brazilians-has fallen on sad times. He was the builder and sole commander of an $85 million, 58-company empire that included 31 newspapers, twelve television stations, 22 radio stations, four magazines, a news agency, two pharmaceutical laboratories and three coffee-and-cattle ranches. He crusaded to push Brazil into the air age, with a campaign that dotted the nation with aviation clubs. He built child-care centers all over Brazil, bullied friends and enemies into filling a $15 million Sāo Paulo art museum with...