Word: correio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warning. Snorted Rio's respected Correio da Manhã: "The title of President Kubitschek should be changed to Pharaoh of Brasilia." Cried onetime Finance Minister Eugenio Gudin: "A crime! Those factors of production wasted on the dream of a new capital will be missed...
...making up his Cabinet, he had to consider the claims of political allies and his need for strong congressional support. What emerged after many hours was a line-up that seemed somewhat oldish and politico-ridden for a new administration with a dynamic program. Snapped Rio's Correio da Manhã: "Faced with the choice between a great Cabinet and Congressional majority, Senhor Kubitschek chose the latter." In at least two key Cabinet posts, however, Kubitschek placed his first choices: as Finance Minister, shrewd Federal Deputy José Maria Alkmin, a loyal friend since the telegraph-office days...
...interior. Near the spot where the Madeira River flows into the Amazon, oil hunters brought in a high-grade gusher, the first oil ever found in Brazil outside the coastal state of Bahia. The oil spurted 150 feet, and made Brazilians gush just as effusively. Said Rio's Correio da Manhá: "Glad tidings! The greatest hope for Brazil's recovery...
Nobody liked the edict. "With things in this country going so badly," growled the conservative newspaper Correio da Manhā, "a campaign to repress excesses in courtship should be put in the one-thousandth priority." Cried Lady Novelist (0 Quinze, As Tres Marias) Rachel de Queiroz: "God protect lovers!" Even the cops prowled Copacabana beach with noisy prudence; they made no arrests the first three nights...
...government propaganda editorials in the wastebasket, regularly broke the ironhanded censorship of Dictator Vargas. "You put me in a difficult position [with the government]," Chateaubriand told Lacerda one day. Snapped back Lacerda: "I put you in an easy one. I resign." Lacerda became a columnist on Rio's Correio da Hanha, and, says he, "we demoralized censorship by ignoring...