Word: interventor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Fortnight ago Evita was at claws' point with Nina Cascallar, the favorite of one Captain Villegas, Argentine Federal Interventor of National Radios. Their tiff occurred on one of Argentina's national holidays, when so many government officials made patriotic speeches that Radio Belgrano, Buenos Aires' most popular broadcasting station, fell behind schedule. Nina, who goes on the air nightly ten minutes before Evita, wanted to be heard, although her time had already overlapped her rival's. But a Belgrano official let the Colonel's lady have...
...Alberto is tallish, slender. A nervous tic periodically distorts his face. His kindly, scholarly bearing does not match his violent past or his present push. Brazilians tell some cynical tales about his appetite for money, and they remember his successful but intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
Corrientes Province (pop. 526,000) is 56% illegitimate and has the highest percentage of illiteracy and tuberculosis in Argentina. But it was not these evils which last week led President Ramón S. Castillo to use the handy Latin American device of a government interventor to replace popularly elected Governor Pedro Numa Soto. President Castillo said administrative scandals forced him to interfere. Actually he usurped control of the political stronghold of pro-Ally General Augustin Justo, who may be his opponent in 1943's Presidential elections...