Word: goulart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge, and again his avowed purpose in calling out the troops was to defend the constitution against Brazil's so-called golpistas: the military-civilian faction that favors a golpe (coup) to keep President-elect Ju-scelino Kubitschek and leftist Vice President-elect Joao ("Jango") Goulart from taking office next January. Teixeira Lott reportedly has no burning admiration for Kubitschek, but he considers himself duty bound to see to it that the presidential candidate who won the most votes in October's election is duly inaugurated...
...rules permitting ticket-splitting, hundreds of thousands of voters who decided for Candidate Barros also voted for Candidate Tavora's running mate, an able jurist named Milton Campos. At week's end Campos was so close behind Kubitschek's running mate, leftish João ("Jango") Goulart, that the contest was still in doubt...
Kubitschek. He was a friend of Vargas and member of a pro-Vargas party, the Social Democrats; thus he was at least indirectly linked with the charges of corruption that brought the Vargas regime crashing down. But the generals have even less liking for youthful (37) Rabble-Rouser Goulart, head of Vargas' own Labor Party, and a Vargas Labor Minister before the army forced him out. Public opinion is against any more coups, and the generals are probably willing to go along with Kubitschek. But they might draw the line at Jango...
...bested the politically potent ghost of the late President Getulio Vargas. After Vargas' suicide in August, ultra-nationalists and Communists rallied around congressional candidates running in Vargas' name; pro-U.S. moderates backed Cafe Filho. But not even Vargas' rabble-rousing former Labor Minister, Joao ("Jango") Goulart, succeeded in winning his race for Senator, and as the votes piled up, the net effect was a green light for Cafe Filho to steer Brazil down the middle of the road. ¶ Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas, who seized power in June's anti-Communist revolution...
...House of Deputies seat; but so did Tribuna da Imprensa Editor Carlos Lacerda, the late President's fiercest newspaper critic. In Vargas' home state of Rio Grande do Sul, at week's end, the hand-picked president of the Vargas-created Labor Party, Joao Goulart, was a poor third in his Senate race; the Labor Party candidate for governor was running second. And in the state of Pernambuco, Vargas' former Agriculture Minister, João Cleofas, was trailing for the governorship...