Word: getulio
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Prestes asked the astonished presiding officer, white-haired Senator Fernando de Melo Viana, for permission to speak. He talked long enough to fill 16 newspaper rolumns. He denied rumors that he was conspiring against the Government with former President Getulio Vargas, and he praised Dictator Perón's variety of democracy in Argentina, where the Communist Party is legal...
Because he had often attacked Dictator Getulio Vargas, it was a good deal of a surprise when, in 1938, Vargas appointed him São Paulo's interventor, i.e., governor. De Barros thinks that Vargas expected him to "hang himself." Only, he laughs, "I didn't." As interventor, he built roads, hospitals and schools. Then, in 1941, after a fight with the Dictator's unsavory brother Benjamin, De Barros was fired. He had taken office a poor man; he left it the owner of plantations, textile factories, a dolomite mine and a candy factory...
...border, both parties did their best. Perón poured drinks for the first Brazilian President to visit his country since Getulio Vargas went to B.A. in 1935. Latin oratory was spilled. When the two Presidents yanked a string to unveil a commemorative plaque, up flew 1,500 Brazilian pigeons painted in the two countries' national colors. For Eva Duarte de Perón, Dutra had a whopping aquamarine brooch encrusted with diamonds...
...Overthrew the Liberal Government of President Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, returned ex-President Getulio Vargas to power...
...each of Brazil's 20 states and the Federal District. Cariocas voted (for the first time in a dozen years) for 50 Rio de Janeiro municipal councilmen. The chief parties were: the Social Democratic Party (of President Eurico Caspar Dutra); the Labor Party (bossed by ex-President Getulio Vargas); the Communist Party; and the National Democratic Union (which is against the Government, the Communists and Vargas). The most sensational aspect of the election was the gains made by Brazil's Communists, who, with an official membership of 120,000, are Latin America's biggest Communist Party...