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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Dictator at Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Dictator at Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Dictator at Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Renamed in honor of the late Mahatma Gandhi: a public square in Rio de Janeiro. The old name had honored Getulio Vargas, once president and boss, now the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bows | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Working the Mine. At Allied urging, Dictator Getulio Vargas nationalized both the mountain and the rickety, narrow-gauge railway that leads to the port of Vitoria, 375 twisting, malarial miles away. When the Rio Doce Valley Co. was formed to administer the entire property the government and private investors subscribed to its $15 million capitalization and the U.S. Export-Import Bank chipped in $19 million more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Magic Mountain | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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