Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hottest politician in Brazil today is a swart, heavyset, pulsating man named Adhemar Pereira de Barros. "Our Adhemar," as his admirers call him, is governor of the state of São Paulo, Brazil's richest province, home of its heavy industry, and exporter of 60% of its cotton and coffee. Its capital city of São Paulo is the fastest growing big city in the world...
Adhemar used to be a doctor. The son of a moderately well-to-do coffee planter, he romped with gold-medal honors-through the University of Brazil, where he studied medicine and played water polo. After two years at the Bayer Laboratory in Berlin, Germany, and at Johns Hopkins Medical School, he hung out his shingle in São Paulo. But the practice of medicine was slow and dull. He turned to politics and became a strong-voiced deputy in the state legislature...
...correspondents well knew that the hotel, with its three bars and five dining rooms, its two swimming pools and its comfortable if chichi rooms, is the best in Brazil. What they were squawking about were the communications between Quitandinha and Rio. They were bad. Only six telephone lines run to Rio. Besides, the correspondents saw no chance of finding quarters in the hotel's 350 rooms. They would have to commute three miles to Petropolis or 40-odd miles...
Harried officials of Agencia Nacional, Brazil's official news agency, replied that the U.S. Army Signal Corps had been asked to set up enough radio transmitters to send all newsmen's copy. The correspondents were not appeased; they sent a petition of protest to President Dutra...
...Brazil is expected to stick by its choice. One reason: the delegates could be housed in one place, away from the distractions of Rio. Another: the hotel, its casino dark, has been losing $10,000 a month ever since the Government ended licensed gambling last year (TIME, May 13, 1946). Holding the conference there would be one way of partially repaying suave Joaquim Rolla, Brazil's former gambling king, and owner of Quitandinha...