Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Brazil's magnetic, dyspeptic Oswaldo Aranha breathed easier and ate better. After scrutinizing 50 X-ray plates, specialists had found no trace of the ailment which has been troubling the former Ambassador to Washington. Aranha got the news in the nick of time. This week he is taking on a strenuous job: Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Security Council. During March, he will be the council's president...
...they have moved in was highlighted by last week's nationwide election in Brazil. Some five million Brazilians voted for governors, local legislators, and a third senator for each of Brazil's 20 states and the Federal District. Cariocas voted (for the first time in a dozen years) for 50 Rio de Janeiro municipal councilmen. The chief parties were: the Social Democratic Party (of President Eurico Caspar Dutra); the Labor Party (bossed by ex-President Getulio Vargas); the Communist Party; and the National Democratic Union (which is against the Government, the Communists and Vargas). The most sensational aspect...
Landslide in Rio. In some places the Communists put up their own candidates; in others they threw their support to congenial candidates of other parties. Their most impressive successes were in Sao Paulo, Brazil's richest industrial state, where they piled up a winning majority for Communist-Progressive fusion candidate Ademar Barros; in Recife (capital of Pernambuco State), where they gained a huge majority; in Rio de Janeiro, where, in a landslide, they elected a still unreported number of councilmen. The Communists had polled about 16% of the total national vote (at least 800,000 ballots...
...Communist gains, important for Brazil, were even more important in the context of emerging Communist strength in Latin America. In Chile, the Communists, thanks to their balance of power in Congress, had helped to elect President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla. President Videla rewarded them with three Cabinet posts, two of which clinched their control of Chile's vital nitrate, copper and coal unions, and of agriculture...
...proof, Wegener pointed to a map. If the drifting continents were pushed together again, they would fit rather neatly. The bulge of Brazil would poke into the Gulf of Guinea. Eastern Canada would fit roughly against Scotland. Spain would snuggle into the Caribbean...