Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's nationwide elections in Brazil, left-wing politicians hopefully predicted that the late President Getulio Vargas' bitter, demagogic suicide letter (TIME, Sept. 6) would bring them a clear-cut victory. But as the returns mounted up, it seemed likely that the No. 1 victor would be a man who was not even a candidate: Vargas' successor, Moderate Conservative President Joao Café Filho, who stood aloof from the pre-election politicking even though the health of his administration was clearly at stake...
...Filho must have a right-and-center majority in Congress to carry out his middle-of-the-road reform program for the remaining 15 months of his term. At week's end, it appeared that-despite Getulio Vargas' emotional farewell ("To the wrath of my enemies I leave the legacy of my death")-the voters had given Café Filho what he needed...
...judge Brazil's economic plight. Last week, in an emotion-choked broadcast over all the country's radio stations, he laid the somber facts on the line. Brazil is in a "dreadful crisis," and the public has to face it. Revelations, all dated from the regime of Getulio Vargas, whose suicide brought Café Filho to power...
...troubled days following Strong Man Getulio Vargas' suicide, Brazil's outlawed Communists tried hard to keep the pot boiling. But new President João Café Filho was ready for the Reds. When they organized a 24-hour general strike last week in industrial São Paulo, he relieved the local army commander as a suspected Red sympathizer, ordered troops and police to keep the public services going, and, most important, ended the day without gunplay or violence...
Though barred constitutionally from running for President in 1955, Café Filho well knows that the problems that toppled Getulio Vargas cannot wait until after elections. A moderate conservative and a warm friend of the U.S., he believes that Brazil cannot solve its tangle of economic problems without the help of the country's chief trading partner. Said the President to a TIME correspondent last week: "An improvement of Brazilian living standards can only be obtained through the economic development of the country. This development cannot be achieved without a policy of collaboration and exchange with other countries...