Word: brigadeiro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excitement mounted in Rio. Though Getulio was not expected to arrive till early this week, bandwagon-jumping politicos staged one banquet of homage after another. Cardinal Dom Jaime Camara announced a special Mass commemorating Vargas' election, although the church press had backed the Brigadeiro during the campaign. The staid Jockey Club said it would revive its annual "Prix Getulio Vargas," which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. At week's end a new samba was sweeping to the top of the pre-Carnival popularity list...
...began in Rio's Hotel dos Estrangeiros. Electoral Board No. 13 opened the first presidential ballots. The judge looked at the first ballot and intoned: "The first vote is for Getulio Vargas." The second, third and fourth ballots were also for Vargas. Not until the fifth ballot did Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes score. The first vote for Christiano Machado, the government's candidate, was recorded even later...
...Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, 54, director general of airways and candidate of the loyal opposition Democratic National Union (U.D.N...
...Promises. Of the three, stiff-backed General Gomes could count on the most solid, unsplit block of votes, the same 2,000,000 he won as Dutra's runnerup in 1945. But many Brazilians wrote him off as a crusty aristocrat, and the Brigadeiro characteristically refused to cut loose with the slashing spiels that might win him wider backing. "I have built my house," he snapped. "Now I can't add any more floors to it." Dutra's Candidate Machado was even less disposed to lash out from the stump. But the mild little man from Minas...
...Federal Deputy Cristiano Machado, 56. An engineer by training, Machado's main qualifications were that he came from politically pivotal Minas Gerais and that he had practically no enemies. Outside his home state, he was almost unknown. The conservative National Democratic Union (UDN) had also made its choice: Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, 54, hero of an unsuccessful 1922 uprising and the man whom Dutra beat...