Word: es
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getulio's War Minister, General Pedro Aurelio GÓes Monteiro, forthwith ordered the Brazilian Army, seasoned by its recent expedition to the Italian front, into the streets with an imposing display of U.S. tanks, half-tracks and machine guns. In no time Vargas was out and Supreme Court Justice José Linhares had taken over the Presidency. A new, largely civilian Cabinet was formed. Two days later, the tanks rolled quietly back to their lairs. No one had been killed...
Home Front. In Tipton, Okla., Jess Grubb, home from the wars, spotted a man in a tree near his house, grabbed his gun from force of habit, captured an es caped German prisoner...
...champ chipped a bit of gilt off her successor's fame last week. Brenda Helser, one of Coach Jack Cody's Portland (Ore.) protégées, was the nation's swiftest woman sprint swimmer a year ago; then along came another West Coast mermaid, Ann Curtis (TIME, April 23), and snatched away her indoor and outdoor titles...
German Cultural Attache von Cossel once said: "Góes Monteiro [then Chief of Staff] may some day change his politics, but Dutra will always be a Nazi." In 1940, as a climax to a large purchase of German arms, Dutra accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle. The Japanese Embassy filled the Dutra home with a set of bright Nipponese furniture. General Dutra's admiration for the professional German Army increased as the Nazis swept to "Victory in the West." But the Nazi stalemate in Russia and the growing Allied strength paled his ardor...
...G.I.s, a wintry, curfewed Paris seemed much gayer last week: up near the Arc de Triomphe a Stage Door Canteen -or Cabaret des Troupes Alliées-had opened and was going full blast. Inside a day or two, in fact, it was frantically yelling for more hostesses, and the orchestra, plagued by boys who wanted to dance every second, was already dying on its derri...