Word: barreto
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...etat in Rio de Janeiro, contrary to many U. S. newspaper stories and headlines last week, was not featured by the resignation of venerable, white-bearded President Washington Luis. What happened was this: at 1 p. m. Federal General Tasso Fragoso and Federal General Jaoa de Deus Menna Barreto, both natives of Rio Grande do Sul, approached the presidential palace at the head of a body of officers, announced that they and virtually the whole body of federal officers in the capital had decided to take over the government as a military junta, "to prevent further bloodshed...