Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk in Rio!"-and they had. Rio de Janeiro went almost mad last week. From 10 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock at night-when Rio Grande do Sul's victorious Dr. Getulio Vargas arrived to be proclaimed Provisional President of Brazil a million people milled through the streets, cheered the red-green- &yellow flags of Rio Grande do Sul everywhere displayed, cheered when the Federal sentries at Cattete Palace were replaced by khaki-clad revoluntionaries. From Cattete Palace he loftily announced that...
...Imperial Majesty Dom Pedro II was not half so exciting as the ousting last week of His Excellency President Washington Luis. Reason: This was Rio Grande do Sul's own victory. She as a state had started the civil war (TIME, Oct. 13), and her former President Dr. Getulio Vargas (as popular in his state as "Al" Smith in New York) was on his way from the battle line to assume the presidency of Brazil. He, like Mr. Smith, was the defeated candidate in his country's last presidential election. Unlike Mr. Smith, he was able...
President Getulio Vargas of the State of Rio Grande do Sul assumed last week the style of Chief Executive in the revolutionary territory...
Livestock is the defeated presidential candidate (Senhor Getulio Vargas), President of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, popular in other livestock states of Minas Geraes and Parahyba. It was naturally these three states that rallied in revolution last week around defeated Candidate Vargas. He has charged for months that agents of the "Coffee Oligarchs" assassinated the vice-presidential candidate who was his running mate. He says that he would now be President-elect instead of Dr. Prestes had not the "Coffee Government" of President Washington Luis perpetrated gross ballot-box frauds...