Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper editor and political reformer, Cafe Filho, who is now 60, never took a dishonest penny. Once, in answer to a bribery attempt, he coolly struck a match to a proffered check. Exiled, jailed, beaten, he became Brazil's Vice President in 1951, and President when Getulio Vargas committed suicide...
Ever since the reign of Dictator Getulio Vargas, a pair of Vargas-founded parties-one a left-winging, Communist-infiltrated labor party, the other the nationalistic party of President Juscelino Kubitschek-have had things pretty much their own way in Brazil. Now a conservative, middle-roading party is challenging the old leaders. It is the National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), whose president, Juracy Magalhaes, 53, has suddenly become a dark horse worth watching in the 1960 race for the presidency...
...Brazil's Getulio Vargas, a dictator for 15 years, was forced out by the army in 1945, made a comeback as an elected President in 1950, but proved such a failure without dictatorial powers that he got a military ultimatum to step down in August 1954. Instead, aged 71, he put a bullet through his heart...
...Western Hemisphere Presidents' meeting in Panama. Another Brazilian of distinction who will work for the Ex-Im loan is Rio's new ambassador, to Washington, Ernani do Amaral Peixoto, who arrived in New York last week with his wife Alzira, daughter of the late President Getulio Vargas. Amaral Peixoto took a leave of absence as chief of Brazil's top political party, the Social Democrats, to accept the post. With Kubitschek, Amaral Peixoto and Lopes all working on an already well-disposed Eisenhower Administration, it is likely that the Brazilians will get much of what they...
...German-speaking immigrant from what is now Czechoslovakia, continued to go by her maiden name after her marriage, and Juscelino grew up as Kubitschek rather than Oliveira. Now that he is famous, his countrymen rarely pronounce the name Kubitschek; he is simply "Juscelino," just as Vargas was always "Getulio...