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...unexplored forests of central Brazil last week workmen were putting the finishing touches to a brand-new Pan American Airways airport. What seagoing Pan Am was doing so far from the seacoast was best explained by a sheaf of papers on the desk of Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Vargas, awaiting his signature. Signed, they would permit Pan Am to lop two days off its five-day, 5,777-mile run from Miami down to Rio de Janeiro...
...scene. Nazi suspects began accusing each other, naming similar organizations throughout Argentina, all under the direction of the German Embassy. More rifles and machine guns were found by following directions of the suspects and most of the guns were identified as contraband, smuggled from Brazil after President Getulio Vargas put down an Integralistas (fascist) revolt there in 1938. Complete storm-troop kits were discovered, each containing two revolvers, a supply of hand grenades, a Nazi dagger, a steel helmet, an identification tag and iron rations...
...whom everybody in Brazil but his enemies refers to as "Getulio" is no genius like Hitler, no actor like Mussolini, but a shrewd, opportunistic, honest politician, with a sincere desire to improve the lot of his people and not too many scruples about the means he employs. Brazilians say he can take off his socks without removing his shoes. He is a Gaucho from the rolling cattle country of Rio Grande do Sul, southernmost of Brazil's 20 federal States. His father who is still living was a General and Getulio grew up in Sao Borja, where lived...
...Getulio went to a private school, enlisted in the Army when he was 17, went from there to Rio Pardo Military School, quit in 1903, when he was 21, to study law at Porto Alegre. In 1908 he hung out his shingle in Sao Borja, and for the next few years he practiced law between terms in the State, then the Federal, Legislature. In 1926 he became Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of President Washington Luiz Pereira de Souza, as a reward for helping to elect Luiz. One year later he was President (Governor) of the State...
Nobody took Getulio too seriously then...