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Heavy Hand. Brazilian President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his military supporters, no lovers of Communism, were alive to its threat. But their answer had been crude, soldierly. Instead of slamming a cap on Brazil's runaway inflation (200-300%), linking wages to living costs, the Government had outlawed independent labor unions and suspended the right to strike...
Brazil's huge gambling industry had thought itself safe when roulette-hating Eduardo Gomes lost out for President last December. But the managers reckoned without the winner-plodding Eurico Gaspar Dutra-and his confessor, Dom Jaime de Barros Cardinal Camara. Last week, President Dutra decreed the end of licensed casino gambling, Brazil's most profitable business...
Brazilians sought in vain for ulterior motives in Dutra's decree. In a country with vastly more money than goods, casino profits had skyrocketed in the last two years to fantastic heights. The Government take in taxes had risen to the dangerous point where casinos were providing a fifth to a tenth of its $600,000,000 income. Rio papers all took the view that the President's action would place the country on a sounder financial footing...
...Dutra had not closed either horse races or the national lottery, which ranked in revenue just behind the casinos. And Brazilians rushed to play the decree number, 9215, on the illegal jógo do bicho, or animal game (TIME, Oct. 29, 1945), which is bigger business than all three...
Cooks and maids of Rio de Janeiro were incensed. Ex-Provisional President José Linhares, they said, was creating unemployment. Before he handed over Guanabara Palace to incoming President Eurico Caspar Dutra last Jan. 31, he had made his colored cook Rosa an assistant postmistress. Then, being without a cook, he put up at the Copacabana Palace Hotel...