Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paper Blizzards. After landing at Galeao airport, the presidential party was taken across the bay in a Brazilian naval launch. At the Touring Club dock, Harry Truman hopped out briskly, strode up the red-carpeted gangplank to greet Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his wife "Dona Santinha." Sitting side by side, the two Presidents drove for six miles along the flag-lined streets between long lines of Brazilian soldiery. Cheering crowds lined every inch of the way. Blizzards of paper fell from the taller buildings. Standing up in the car, Harry Truman waved amiably to yells...
...brought down the house when he said simply and directly: "And I'm here to say that we don't forget our friends when they have been friends in need." That night, there was a formal state dinner at Itamarati Palace. Over champagne, Truman cordially invited Dutra and his family to visit the U.S. Said Truman: "We have never had such a reception. ... I am tempted to come and run for mayor of Rio de Janeiro and I think I could be elected...
...deliver this week at the closing session of Rio's Inter-American Defense Conference and the joint session of the Brazilian Congress, and get set for a round of official festivities unmatched in Brazilian history (see LATIN AMERICA). At the request of Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra, he would extend his stay from five to seven days, to help celebrate Brazil's 125th Independence Day. The big fiesta would be a pleasure for Harry Truman, who always has a wonderful time and does a wonderful good-will job on trips abroad...
...Liking. The Secretary got home for a 2 o'clock lunch and a quiet 7:30 dinner. For exactly one hour after dinner, unless there were guests, he played Chinese checkers with Mrs. Marshall.*Then he retired. At week's end he lunched in Rio with President Dutra. Another day he turned up unexpectedly at a Quitandinha horse show named in his honor "The General Marshall Trials." Mrs. Marshall bought him a bag of popcorn. He handed it right down to two small boys who had been staring at Irm for all they were worth from beneath...
...minutes past the scheduled hour, chunky Eurico Caspar Dutra, flanked by the conference chairman, Brazil's Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes (TiME, Aug. 4), inarched into the room. His opening address was short and dull. The President read it without a flicker of emphasis, shifting his pages from left hand to right as he finished with them. Delegates applauded politely...