Word: caspar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With President Eurico Caspar Dutra's support, a provision was written into the 1946 constitution setting aside 1% of all national revenues for development of the valley for 20 years. Since then, Dutra's enthusiasm for the project has become almost an obsession...
President Truman's Point Four program had already suggested that a change was at hand. More recently, Washington's warm welcome to Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra pointed up U.S. determination to stand beside its democratic friends. Last week fresh evidence that the U.S. was pulling up its hemispheric socks came with the nomination of an Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs. He was balding, 37-year-old Edward G. Miller Jr., Yaleman ('33), Wall Street lawyer and one of Dean Acheson's closest wartime lieutenants at the State Department...
Fully an hour before Harry Truman tumbled out of bed at his usual 6 a.m., an earlier bird in the same nest had beaten him to it. In the stillness of Blair House, another President, Brazil's Eurico Caspar Dutra, also true to his old-soldier habit, had already shaved and breakfasted. Coming down stairs later, Harry Truman invited his overnight guest along on his regular morning stroll. Long before the high priests of protocol were up to bother them, the two Presidents ambled leisurely in the capital's cool, clear morning...
...Tight Spitter. Brazil's President lacks the easygoing gaiety of most of his countrymen. His short figure and outsize head have made sobersided Eurico Caspar Dutra a target for Rio cartoonists, who love to picture him as a sleepy owl. But even his harshest critics concede him a rocklike integrity, boundless courage, and an immobile sort of dignity...
...defeated by Julio Prestes, a protégé of the incumbent President, bumbling, liberal Washington Luiz. Flanked by fellow gaúcho Oswaldo Aranha and the swashbuckling General Pedro Aurelio de Góes Monteiro, Vargas marched triumphantly on Rio. The army-including Lieut. Colonel Eurico Caspar Dutra-recognized the popular strength of Vargas' movement and backed...