Word: guanabara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolution in São Paulo in 1932, he had himself elected President by a Constituent Assembly in 1934, promulgated a new constitution reducing States' rights. This act shortly produced further revolutionary rumblings. These Strong Man Vargas has dealt with chiefly by governing vast Brazil from his white Guanabara Palace under a succession of "State of War" decrees which have kept his 45,000,000 fellow citizens, who live in half of South America, virtually under martial...
Brazilians would not have been surprised had President Hoover vacated his White House, installed the Prestes therein. When Mr. Hoover as President-elect visited Rio de Janeiro* hospitable President Washington Luis of Brazil moved out of his official residence, Guanabara Palace, and in for 60 hours moved Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. Last week U. S. servants at the Meyer mansion were informed that they must not ascend to the second floor, where the President-elect, dynamic, Rooseveltian, big-boned, occupied Mrs. Meyer's pink-draped bedroom. The Prestes' own Brazilian "man" served his master's frugal breakfasts ? with emphasis...