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Roused from bed at dawn to be told that Vargas had turned the government over to him, Vice President Joࣞ Café Filho* 55, was being photographed in his pajamas when he learned that the old man had put him in an even tighter spot by committing suicide. The new chief of state took over his job without any ceremony. While heavily armed troops held Rio like a city at war, he moved fast to avert any coups and to restore order...
...Dictator's police tried to dam the tide of underground literature, including "suppressed" articles from U.S. magazines. At last, the Dictator yielded a trifle. His Minister of Justice and Labor, Alexandre Marcondes Filho, told reporters: "Elections are being studied. . . . The process will obey democratic norms...
Police and Schools. Candido Mota Filho, one of the nation's best known reactionaries, was imposed as a professor on the São Paulo Law School. (The students walked...
Newspaperman José S. Maciel Filho, considered a Vargas mouthpiece, hinted at a longer-range reason: a big expansion of Federal power for postwar exploitation of Brazil's resources. Before the war ends, other Brazilian states may be "dismembered." Said Maciel Filho: "President Vargas is serenely reorganizing our structure. The creation of territories is . . . a preparation for . . . the [postwar] structure of Brazil...