Word: ernesto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week death came to the best loved man in Brazil: Pedro Ernesto Baptista. Years ago, when Getulio Vargas began his revolution, Pedro Ernesto, a surgeon, used his own hospital's ambulance to run machine guns to the Vargas contingents massing at Minas Geraes. When Vargas became President, Pedro Ernesto became prefect of the Federal District (Brazilian equivalent of mayor of the District of Columbia). This was a job which gave Pedro Ernesto the chance he had wanted: he labored to improve conditions in Rio's slums; he built schools, free clinics, city hospitals...
...counter-move last week, Leftist parties organized a new National Democratic Front. Its avowed aims: to put down Nazi & Fascist activities, work for a break with the Axis. But some of the Rightists are anti-Axis, too, and approve Foreign Minister Ernesto Barros Jarpa's recent cautious statement that Chile is "non-belligerent" on the side of the U.S. What all Rightists chiefly want is to see internal splits healed along strongman. Rightist lines. And cold, hawk-nosed President Rios looked like their...
Chile, only other American republic which has not broken relations with the Axis, indicated that Lawyer Ernesto Barros Jarpa would become Foreign Minister. With Barros, a stanch supporter of the U.S., in the Foreign Office, Chile felt that Washington would understand if she, too, thought things over a while longer...
...next morning he had decided to take over himself, had started a police roundup of Arias' henchmen. At 10 the Cabinet met in the Balboa police station to form a new Government. As President it picked Ernesto Jaén Guardia, who was sworn in at 1 p.m. But after two members of the old Cabinet were arrested, Ernesto decided that he did not choose to rule, and by the end of the afternoon Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia was Panama's boss. All these changes were constitutional...
...Lippay's Filipino symphonists all had regular contracts. Today, playing in the Manila Symphony is a full-time job, pays from pesos 30 ($15) to pesos 150 ($75) a month (as much as the starting salary of a government employe). Key men like four-feet-six Concertmaster Ernesto Vallejo have studied in Europe or the U.S. But most of the players, including a bassoonist who learned his instrument in a few days before his first concert, are naturally gifted natives who take to Beethoven like an Igorot to confirmation.* Conductor Zipper, also an Austrian, who fled to the Philippines...