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Since his overthrow five years ago by a Brazilian army clique, ex-Dictator Getulio Vargas has lived the quiet life of a gentleman gaucho on his estancia in Rio Grande do Sul. To visitors he spoke of his ranch as "this secluded spot so remote from political agitation." He smoked long cigars, wore a cowboy's bombachas, tended his cattle, and waited...
...other major political parties, the Social Democrats and National Democratic Union, could not agree on a joint candidate. If he really had a candidate of his own in mind, most likely the man was able Oswaldo Aranha, his onetime Foreign Minister. But many Brazilians seemed to think that Getulio was maneuvering for his own return to power...
Vargas' popular strength appeared to be growing steadily. Ordinary Brazilians, burdened by inflation, had developed a strong nostalgia for the good old days under Getulio. Little posters were appearing on the walls everywhere: "Bread 10? 1940-Bread 32? 1950." Even the army showed some signs of returning to Vargas' side. In the election of officers last month at Rio's Club Militar (a social center to which most army officers belong), the regular anti-Vargas slate was defeated. The winning faction made a point of saying that they would not object to the ex-President...
...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...