Word: eurico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eurico Caspar Dutra's regime finally squelched the Revista. But when Getulio Vargas returned to power last January, Estillac Leal became his War Minister. He permitted the Red editors to revive Revista. When criticism flared, Estillac protested that he was a busy man and took a leave from the club presidency. Army anti-Communists grew angrier. After a bitter campaign, they won a promise that a referendum vote would be held on whether the membership really supported the Revista's leftist editorial policy...
...felt that the U.S. was neglecting them, the announcement carried special political significance, and it strengthened U.S. prestige. Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes had worked six months to get the program started, and was responsible for the timing of the announcement before year's end. Both he and President Eurico Gaspar Dutra regarded the obtaining of the Point Four spending program as a crowning achievement of their administration, and they wanted to get it on their record before they hand over the government to Getulio Vargas next month...
...hemisphere's biggest republic was winding up its biggest election campaign. Fifty thousand candidates, campaigning on at least 14 party tickets for 18,000 offices, wooed the votes of 11 million electors. In the main fight, the contest for successor to President Eurico Caspar Dutra, no one would predict the winner. With election day a week away, three top presidential candidates were running neck & neck.*The three...
Conferred on General Mark Clarlc, Chief of Army Field Forces, by Brazil's President Eurico Gaspar Dutra: the honorary rank of general in the Brazilian army. Invited to dedicate a new industrial exhibit hall named in his honor in Berlin: General George Marshall, wartime U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Greeted in Berlin by hordes of Germans who pelted him with flowers: Philadelphia Adman Frank Howley, onetime Commandant of the city's U.S. sector...
...President Eurico Caspar Dutra (who may not succeed himself), the Social Democrats (PSD) had nominated short, affable Federal 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...