Word: getulio
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...could see harmony reigned in Brazil, and between Brazil and all nations. Side by side in front of the new War Ministry in Rio de Janeiro stood President Getulio Dornellas Vargas and his Minister of War, General Eurico Dutra. Their bland faces gave no hint of the tension existing within the Vargas Government - a tension which only recently caused a grave but laughable Cabinet crisis. According to the story that leaked out, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and other pro-U.S. ministers had planned an elaborate coup to get rid of Axis-sympathizing General Dutra...
...help Russia and the Pope's refusal to join Adolf Coeur de Lion's crusade kept the Nazi campaign from gaining headway among the more statesmanlike of Latin America's leaders. Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo joined Brazil's Getulio Vargas and Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in broadcasting good-neighborly greetings to the U.S. on the Fourth of July...
...holiday in Germany, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas celebrated May Day by treating Good-Will Tourist Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to a 9? lunch at a workers' restaurant. While they ate, loudspeakers blared Emily Post slogans. Sample: "Don't wipe your mouth on the tablecloth; use a paper napkin." Goodwillman Fairbanks was lionized by Rio society, cheered by 50,000 football fans. Asked by newspapermen why Hollywood presents so distorted a view of Latin-American life (see p. 34), quick-witted Actor Fairbanks replied that Hollywood often presented a pretty...
Birthdays. Princess Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to the throne of Great Britain, quietly, her 15th. Commander in Chief Adolf Hitler, with his armies in the Balkans, his 52nd (see p. 22). Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, in whose honor 1,000 new schoolhouses were opened, his 58th. Maestro Leopold Stokowski, promising to leave Army bands for his Philadelphia orchestra "after the present national crisis is past," his 59th. Actress May Robson, a guest at a special screening of her 60th picture (Million Dollar Baby), her 76th...
...veteran diamond cutter, one of the few living men who could be entrusted with the job of cutting the famed Vargas Diamond, largest (726.60 carats) known uncut diamond in the world. The diamond, discovered by a farmer in Brazil three years ago, is named for Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. Because there is no market for diamonds that big, Owner Harry Winston, Manhattan jewel merchant, decided to have it cut into 23 smaller diamonds, ranging from five to 50 carats each...