Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portinari, explaining his conversion to politics: "We must all take our posts in this decisive phase of history, whose march no force can detain, because it is more powerful than the atomic bomb." Rio political analysts thought Communist Candidate Fiuza might nose out ex-War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra for second place. But most Brazilians were betting on General Eduardo Gomes to win the Presidency. Whoever won would have a man-size job bringing order out of the economic chaos and fraud turning up in the wake of the departed Getulio Vargas...
...Minister General Eurice Gaspar Dutra, clammy-handed, reformed pro-Nazi creator of Brazil's modern army, was the candidate of the old administration. Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes, legendary hero of a revolt 23 years ago, was Dutra's opponent...
...week's end correspondents in Rio heard that Getulio Vargas, a country squire of three days' standing, wanted to return to politics on the Dutra ticket, as a candidate for senator. Brazilians were hardly reassured by Squire Vargas' signed statement, front-paged this week in Rio's O Globo, that he was a simple citizen, uninterested in public office...
Brazil's President Getulio Dornelles Vargas had not lost his touch. Last week, with a flourish of his wily pen, he brightened the chances of Government-backed Candidate General Eurico Gaspar Dutra in the approaching (Dec. 2) presidential elections, rocked opposition candidate General Eduardo Gomes back on his heels and left the Government's uneasy Communist allies stunned. A presidential decree 1) advanced the date of state elections to coincide with the presidential elections, 2) required state governors to resign and stand for election if they want to succeed themselves...
Even with official propaganda, apparently limitless funds and control of the labor unions, the Government had found it difficult to promote a country-wide organization behind Dutra. Reasons: 1) state pride, 2) apathy toward dull Candidate Dutra, 3) the hot weather. But now that state governors were to fight for their own political lives on Dec. 2, they would have to roll up their sleeves, rally town mayors, dogcatchers and other local officials behind the Government cause...