Word: getulio
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...dictatorship had come to an end in Latin America's biggest country. Getulio Vargas, the man who introduced modern authoritarianism to Brazil and the New World 15 years ago, was out of the Presidency. And it had all happened with remarkably little fuss. Said Rio de Janeiro's Diario de Noticias: "The abdication was as easy as rotten fruit dropping off a tree...
Along with most other Brazilians, the Brazilian General Staff had long suspected that Vargas was up to some trickery that would postpone the Dec. 2 presidential elections and justify his staying in power. The tip-off came when Getulio made his notorious brother Benjamin ("Beijo"-the kiss) chief of the powerful Rio police. That meant violence. For natty little Beijo was even more famous for flourishing his gun in nightclubs than for kissing chorus girls...
...Getulio's War Minister, General Pedro Aurelio GÓes Monteiro, forthwith ordered the Brazilian Army, seasoned by its recent expedition to the Italian front, into the streets with an imposing display of U.S. tanks, half-tracks and machine guns. In no time Vargas was out and Supreme Court Justice José Linhares had taken over the Presidency. A new, largely civilian Cabinet was formed. Two days later, the tanks rolled quietly back to their lairs. No one had been killed...
...schedule, the Brazilian-in-the-street would have to look sharp to measure up to democracy's standards. The newly formed national parties would mean little. The political debates on the radio and in the press (if he could read) would at first be more confusing than Getulio's streamlined dialectics. Many a voter would rely on the mayor's or the priest's advice when called upon to elect a President and Congress...
...Brazil, biggest in size (3,286,170 sq. mi.) and population (44,460,000), replaced swart little Getulio Vargas, its President and dictator since 1930 (see above...