Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brazil. President Getulio Dornellas Vargas went for an afternoon drive along Petropolis Highway near Rio de Janeiro last week. Down a steep embankment bounded a bulky boulder, crashed a window of the car. At one stroke it broke both the President's legs, one of his wife's legs and killed his naval aide, Lieutenant Alfredo Celso Pestana. Peru. To shoot at tough little Luis M. Sanchez Cerro was an old Spanish custom, to hit him was a fairly common occurrence, but to kill him was News. Martial law was declared throughout Peru last week and the nation...
...great fact last week was that Brazilians are again each other's friends. Their bankers opined persuasively that "the inflation has not been sufficient to affect commerce." Amid national rejoicing President Getulio Vargas reopened Santos Harbor, Brazil's famed coffee port, blockaded throughout the civil...
Travelers emerging from the United States of Brazil estimated that between 8,000 and 12.000 Brazilians have been killed, had no idea how many have been wounded since Sao Paulo State, ''The Heart of Brazil," raised her gory standard against Brazil's faintly perfumed but sufficiently ruthless Provisional President Getulio Vargas...
...announcement new to Latin American revolutions came from the revolutionists of Sao Paulo last week, leaders in Brazil's civil war against the Rio de Janeiro Government of Provisional President Getulio Vargas. So many enthusiasts had volunteered for the rebel army that the lists were full and the books closed with a complement of 60,000 men-all that Sao Paulo arsenals, armories and munitions plants can take care of. Tardy volunteers must take their places on the waiting list, to be called as casualties warrant...
...Rebel forces from Sao Paulo State, Brazil's "Mother of Revolutions," repulsed Federal troops in a hot fight on their own ground, circulated rumors that "Provisional President Getulio Vargas is about to resign...