Word: furtado
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...fight Juliâo and his Peasant Leagues, President Quadros is backing a man and a plan. Last week Quadros sent the man to Washington to seek help. Celso Furtado, 40, felt immediately at home with President Kennedy's frontiersmen. Slim and intense, Furtado is himself a northeasterner who got through economics courses at Cambridge and the Sorbonne on saved-up soldier's pay and a literary prize. He worked nine years for the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America laying out development plans for Mexico and Venezuela, made a study of the Brazilian economy, finally...
Dunlap's men last month uncovered "certain manipulations" of the books and got a confession from Edwin M. Furtado, chief of the accounts section. He had been predating receipts to help taxpayers avoid penalties...
When the news got to Washington, Furtado's boss, Collector James G. Smyth, was promptly suspended by the President. Less than an hour later, Dunlap held a press conference and announced the removal of six more San Francisco tax officials. Smyth and his lieutenants, explained the grim commissioner, were being removed for "incompetence." They should have known what Furtado was doing and stopped...