Word: eduardo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week things were different. In Rio, the Supreme Court, acting in its capacity as the country's Supreme Electoral Tribunal, formally proclaimed Vargas victor in last October's presidential election. The official count: Vargas, 3,820,560; Briga-deiro Eduardo Gomes, 2,288,105; Christiano Machado, 1,653,521. From his ranch in the south, Getulio began a stately progress toward Rio and next week's inaugural ceremonies. When he met Sao Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros to talk over the new cabinet, so many well-wishers surrounded him that he had to sneak...
...Hotel dos Estrangeiros. Electoral Board No. 13 opened the first presidential ballots. The judge looked at the first ballot and intoned: "The first vote is for Getulio Vargas." The second, third and fourth ballots were also for Vargas. Not until the fifth ballot did Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes score. The first vote for Christiano Machado, the government's candidate, was recorded even later...
Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, 54, director general of airways and candidate of the loyal opposition Democratic National Union (U.D.N...
...Deputy Cristiano Machado, 56. An engineer by training, Machado's main qualifications were that he came from politically pivotal Minas Gerais and that he had practically no enemies. Outside his home state, he was almost unknown. The conservative National Democratic Union (UDN) had also made its choice: Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, 54, hero of an unsuccessful 1922 uprising and the man whom Dutra beat...
...began boiling out of the bleachers, police hastily surrounded Othello Renfroe and escorted him two blocks to a police station, where he was fined 250 pesos ($29) for assault & battery. That night, after Torreón had won the game 5 to 4, the Association of Umpires wired Doctor Eduardo Quijano, president of the Mexican Baseball League, announcing that no further umpiring would take place in the league until Renfroe had been expelled. Next morning, before the league had had time to act on the umpires' demand, government agents picked Renfroe up and put him aboard a plane...