Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Controlled Inflation. In Rio de Janeiro, President Getulio Vargas granted a 60% increase in the price of luncheon in the government-sponsored workers' restaurant. The new price of the luncheon...
Valentim Boucas, amiable financial adviser to President Getulio Vargas, was in Washington last week. He concluded an agreement which raised the price of wild Amazon rubber and shifted to the Brazilians the responsibility for producing it (TIME, Feb. 28). Also on his mind was the dubious postwar future of Amazon rubber...
Brazil, under the pro-Allied rule of Franklin Roosevelt's good friend Getulio Vargas, has a postal censorship so rigid that almost any criticism of its Government is a criminal offense. According to a returning traveler, an American businessman recently wrote a letter lambasting Brazilian business practices. He was jailed, held incommunicado for three days, then sent home on a plane. Finally Ambassador Jefferson Caffery heard of the case, made representations...
President Getulio Vargas of Brazil, ex-critic, author of his own speeches (twelve published volumes), was made a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was the first Brazilian chief of state to make...
...often in hiding, was once caught and imprisoned for six months. He was driven into exile, struggling across the wilderness of the Matto Grosso to the Bolivian frontier. After lean years among the outs, he was one of the leaders of the 1930 revolution which anchored his chief, Getulio Vargas, in Guanabara Palace. Subsequent revolutionary movements failed, and João Alberto had much to do with their failure...