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Cooks and maids of Rio de Janeiro were incensed. Ex-Provisional President José Linhares, they said, was creating unemployment. Before he handed over Guanabara Palace to incoming President Eurico Caspar Dutra last Jan. 31, he had made his colored cook Rosa an assistant postmistress. Then, being without a cook, he put up at the Copacabana Palace Hotel...
...Argentina vied to honor Brazil's new President Eurico Gaspar Dutra. Both sent distinguished representatives to his inaugural-the U.S., Fiorello H. LaGuardia; Argentina, Vice President Juan Pistarini. Both sent their best warships. On the sleek, British-built cruiser La Argentina (6,000 tons), President Dutra received the collar of San Martin. Aboard the mighty carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (45,000 tons),he watched 75 warplanes roar into the air, but got no medal. Both the U.S. and Argentina scheduled-the same evening-lavish embassy receptions. President Dutra solved that problem by attending both, became the first Brazilian President...
Brazilians staged the largest popular election in South American history last week. The apparent winner, ex-War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra, was backed by Getulio Vargas, the man who had ruled Brazil for 15 years, under a form of government the U.S. considered (but did not officially call) dictatorship. But impartial observers agreed that the election had been carried out fairly and squarely...
Brazilians who had called him "too idealistic and too politically naive" now praised him for "his honesty and firmness, pitted him against Vargas' old War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra for the Presidency...
...matrons. Said Portinari, explaining his conversion to politics: "We must all take our posts in this decisive phase of history, whose march no force can detain, because it is more powerful than the atomic bomb." Rio political analysts thought Communist Candidate Fiuza might nose out ex-War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra for second place. But most Brazilians were betting on General Eduardo Gomes to win the Presidency. Whoever won would have a man-size job bringing order out of the economic chaos and fraud turning up in the wake of the departed Getulio Vargas...