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...organization open to all Brazilian officers. Organizing Cell No. 2 of their Democratic Front of National Liberation inside the club, they gained influence by lobbying in Congress for more pay and privileges for officers. In the club's 1950 elections, they helped elect as club president General Newton Estillac Leal, the candidate of Getulio Vargas, then launching his political comeback; at the same time, they worked their own men into key jobs on the club directorate...