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Brazilians staged the largest popular election in South American history last week. The apparent winner, ex-War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra, was backed by Getulio Vargas, the man who had ruled Brazil for 15 years, under a form of government the U.S. considered (but did not officially call) dictatorship. But impartial observers agreed that the election had been carried out fairly and squarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Winner | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

They elected a President. Not since 1930 had the people voted for a President in Brazil. The man they did not elect that time, Getulio Vargas, took office anyway-by revolution-and overstayed his leave. Now, by staging the biggest popular election in Latin American history, Brazilians had marked the end of the long dictatorship and had set the stage for a fuller democracy than any they had ever enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Brigadier Candidate | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...been one of the Dezoito do Forte, 18 irreconcilables who had preferred death on Copacabana's bloody beach to surrender. Badly wounded, Gomes and two others survived. He fought again in the São Paulo rebellion of 1924. In 1930 he marched to power as one of Getulio Vargas' "young lieutenants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Brigadier Candidate | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra for second place. But most Brazilians were betting on General Eduardo Gomes to win the Presidency. Whoever won would have a man-size job bringing order out of the economic chaos and fraud turning up in the wake of the departed Getulio Vargas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Decisive Phase | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...week's end correspondents in Rio heard that Getulio Vargas, a country squire of three days' standing, wanted to return to politics on the Dutra ticket, as a candidate for senator. Brazilians were hardly reassured by Squire Vargas' signed statement, front-paged this week in Rio's O Globo, that he was a simple citizen, uninterested in public office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The New Day | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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