Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until all the votes were counted, Brazil's political pundits remained understandably quiet. But two facts seemed to be clear already: Vargas had lost none of his appeal to Brazil's working classes, and the country had apparently tired of the vacillating, do-nothing policies of the Dutra government...
...hemisphere's biggest republic was winding up its biggest election campaign. Fifty thousand candidates, campaigning on at least 14 party tickets for 18,000 offices, wooed the votes of 11 million electors. In the main fight, the contest for successor to President Eurico Caspar Dutra, no one would predict the winner. With election day a week away, three top presidential candidates were running neck & neck.*The three...
Cristiano Machado, 57, little-known lawyer from the pivotal state of Minas Gerais, nominee of President Dutra's official Social Democratic Party (P.S.D...
...uninspired but careful constitutional rule. His rivals took a forthright stand on the proposition that, as outs, they could do a better job than the ins. The candidates tacitly ignored foreign affairs; Korea was hardly mentioned. Vargas supporters sometimes charged the present government with serving U.S. interests, and Dutra's partisans accused Vargas of accepting subsidies from Peron; but none of these charges could be made to stick...
...Promises. Of the three, stiff-backed General Gomes could count on the most solid, unsplit block of votes, the same 2,000,000 he won as Dutra's runnerup in 1945. But many Brazilians wrote him off as a crusty aristocrat, and the Brigadeiro characteristically refused to cut loose with the slashing spiels that might win him wider backing. "I have built my house," he snapped. "Now I can't add any more floors to it." Dutra's Candidate Machado was even less disposed to lash out from the stump. But the mild little man from Minas...