Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could feed itself. With less than 2% under erratic cultivation, the country last year had to spend nearly $200 million on food imports (chiefly wheat), a needless drain on its foreign-exchange balance. It was just such a lopsided condition that prompted Fernando Costa, minister of agriculture under Dictator Getulio Vargas, to launch the university project in 1941. Shrewdly wangling government funds a little at a time, Costa built the core of a $6,000,000 farm school that is now a model of its kind...
...situation changed abruptly. In the turbulent presidential election, Governor Getulio Vargas of Rio Grande do Sul was defeated by Julio Prestes, a protégé of the incumbent President, bumbling, liberal Washington Luiz. Flanked by fellow gaúcho Oswaldo Aranha and the swashbuckling General Pedro Aurelio de Góes Monteiro, Vargas marched triumphantly on Rio. The army-including Lieut. Colonel Eurico Caspar Dutra-recognized the popular strength of Vargas' movement and backed...
Onetime President Getulio Vargas has been on leave from the Brazilian Senate for more than a year. But to his tiny, yellow stucco ranch house in remote southwest Rio Grande do Sul comes an endless stream of well-wishers, politicos, favor-seekers and givers of advice. Three and a half years after the revolution that broke his 15-year rule, the wily ex-dictator is again the political personage of the hour...
...Brazilian cities, posters proclaim: "He will return." Below the legend is a price list showing that rice, beans and other basic necessities of Brazilian life now cost twice what they did in Getulio's time. Getulio himself has made no move. Yet he is so widely discussed for the 1950 presidential elections that most political maneuvers in Brazil lately have had one theme: stop Getulio. To further that end by bolstering his own sagging prestige, President Eurico Caspar Dutra recently announced plans for a visit...
...Vargas squirmed. He twisted a box of matches around in his hands. He looked out the door. Finally he said: "The Brazilian people are suffering, particularly the workers. The crisis, in time, may pass." And then, as an afterthought: "Perhaps they need a younger man than I." In short, Getulio Vargas did not answer the question as bluntly as the posters...