Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Rio's Palacio Tiradentes one afternoon this week strode well-groomed Professor Pereira Lira, President Eurico Gaspar Dutra's personal counselor. He carried a heavy, leather-bound pile of papers, which he placed on the speaker's desk in the Chamber of Deputies. To the opening session of the Brazilian Congress the president had sent a 130,000-word message on the state of the nation...
...soldier Dutra, the honest plodder who had faced one crisis after another in three uneasy years as president, gave a good account of himself. He had balanced the 1947 budget and had $25 million left over (he was $141 million in the red in 1946). Moreover, Brazil's inflation-one of the worst in South America-now seemed to have leveled...
...diplomats of Jersey Standard, Shell and Texaco were anxiously waiting for Congress to write a law that would give them a freer hand in production, refining and distribution. Always before, the government had felt that Brazilians should control sales in Brazil. Now, with Dutra looking their way, the companies might get a law to their liking...
President Eurico Caspar Dutra's government, which has reportedly been waiting for an excuse to throw Prestes in jail, now seemed to have one. If Prestes wanted to return to prison and martyrdom, he had made a start...
...Communist daily, the name-changing Tribuna Popular, got the treatment a few hours after President Dutra signed 900-A. A police detail appeared with a two-week suspension order from the Minister of Justice. Gingerly trying Tribuna's metal door, they set off a burglar alarm, and then started shooting. For half an hour they fought it out, until police machine guns and tear gas ended the brawl. Score: four Communists seriously wounded...