Word: guanabara
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...hiding, was once caught and imprisoned for six months. He was driven into exile, struggling across the wilderness of the Matto Grosso to the Bolivian frontier. After lean years among the outs, he was one of the leaders of the 1930 revolution which anchored his chief, Getulio Vargas, in Guanabara Palace. Subsequent revolutionary movements failed, and João Alberto had much to do with their failure...
...Silveira Cintra, 60; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. He was made Cardinal in 1930, the same year intervened in the revolution that put Getulio Vargas in power, was credited with saving the life of incumbent Washington Luis. While the revolutionaries' guns were trained on Guanabara Palace where President Luis had holed up for a stand to the death, the Cardinal gained entrance, found Luis, talked to him for half an hour, persuaded him to abdicate...
...first whiff of Brazil while on vacation from the Woolworth store he managed in Atlantic City. Back in the States, he continued to dream of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay. He also had another reverie : a chain of low-price stores in Brazil. Woolworth, he knew, would never send him there; the chain had investigated South America as a market, rejected it. Jim threw up his 15-year job, arrived in Rio on Washington's birthday, 1929, with two partners...
...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...