Word: itu
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...military coup ended Vargas' 15-year regime, and the old man withdrew in good order to his ranch near the Uruguayan frontier at Itu. There he got into cowboy breeches and boots, and ostensibly retired from politics. Even after São Paulo's bumptious Governor Adhemar de Barros named him for a presidential comeback (TIME, June 26), Getulio sat on quietly at Itu. As election day (Oct. 3) got closer, the hottest Brazilian political question was whether Getulio still had his old magic, and whether he cared to practice it. Last week Brazilians found...
...from the south had taken Kungan, the main Japanese forward base, recovered Nanhsien and Nanhsian on the northern shore of Tungting Lake and was forging on to the river. Chen Cheng had driven to the south bank within sight of Ichang, and eliminated the last Japanese ferry head at Itu...
...Nigerian blacks have been in an ugly, riotous mood of late, due to the Government's unpopular attempts to collect a head tax on their woolly polls. At Itu, Nigeria, the local British river steamer was chased by tax-indignant blacks in war canoes. "With regard to the women," concluded Dr. Shiels, "His Majesty's Government is informed that they were encouraged in their provocation by a man who told them that British troops would never fire on persons of their...