Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first cable from Rio de Janeiro to reach TIME'S foreign desk a fortnight ago reported the suicide story of President Getulio Vargas. It ended with a terse footnote: "Impossible reach office now blocked by police investigating killing of boy outside building. Plan file picemeal updating whenever possible sit down and write...
Brazil's pent-up pressures had been building almost from the day in 1950 when Onetime Dictator Getulio Vargas swept to power in an astounding election comeback. Strangely enough, the strongman who had once bent 40 million Brazilians to his will turned out to be a donothing President. He worked hard but ineffectually, giving so much time and energy to political maneuvering that almost none was left for establishing the leadership that he, of all Brazilians, might have proclaimed...
...take the sorrow of not having been able to do for the humble all that I desired." Then, in the loneliness of defeat, he carried out his supreme decision. At the sound of the single shot, members of his family rushed into the unlocked room. On the bed lay Getulio Vargas, still holding a revolver in his stiffened hand while the patch of blood over his heart grew larger. His son Luthero, a physician, felt his pulse. With tears streaming down his cheeks, Luthero whispered: "Papa is dead...
Eventful Era. The life that Getulio Vargas left behind filled an eventful Brazilian era. The stocky, inscrutable little man-he was just 5 ft. 2 in. tall-dominated Latin America's biggest country for a generation, and turned it from a scattered confederacy of bickering states into a republic with all the attributes of modern nationhood, including the most rabid sort of nationalism...
...Died. Getulio Vargas. 71. onetime (1930-45) dictator and, since 1950, the constitutionally-elected President of Brazil; by his own hand (shooting); in Rio de Janeiro (see HEMISPHERE...