Word: interventor
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...ardent followers in Argentina would be cleared. A ban on political activity was lifted for 34,791 Peronistas. Another 6,500 got the right to resume labor union activities-just in time for an all-out fight for control of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). A new government interventor for the C.G.T. was appointed last week by Frondizi and instructed to hold free elections within 90 days. Peronista-dominated unions were favored to win a close race for control of the huge (3,000,000 members) organization...
...longtime right-hand man of the late President Getúlio Vargas ; of can cer; in Rio de Janeiro. Joao Alberto played an important role in the 1930 revolution that brought Vargas to power. During the 1 5-year dictatorship that fol lowed, he was chiefly responsible, as federal interventor of São Paulo and chief of police of Rio de Janeiro, for Vargas' survival in the face of repeated internal
...capital was out of meat and low on gasoline. As though by plan, President Jacobo Arbenz declared an emergency, summoned his Cabinet and seized the road. As trains began to move again, Alfonso Bauer Paiz, who proudly proclaims his hatred of "foreign monopolies," was named government interventor...
Because he had often attacked Dictator Getulio Vargas, it was a good deal of a surprise when, in 1938, Vargas appointed him São Paulo's interventor, i.e., governor. De Barros thinks that Vargas expected him to "hang himself." Only, he laughs, "I didn't." As interventor, he built roads, hospitals and schools. Then, in 1941, after a fight with the Dictator's unsavory brother Benjamin, De Barros was fired. He had taken office a poor man; he left it the owner of plantations, textile factories, a dolomite mine and a candy factory...
Editor Fernandes had incurred the enmity of Interventor (appointed governor) of Pernambuco Etelvino Lins when he printed the full story of the murder of Democrito de Souza (TIME, March 19), a student leader. In his own garden, Fernandes was knifed one night by a gang of capangas (paid cutthroats...