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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.D.N. scored a stunning victory. It picked up two new governorships, added six Senate seats to its 13, seven more Chamber of Deputies posts to make 81. The win was a massive upset for Brazil's leftist labor party and its demagogic boss, Vice President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, who also has his sights on the presidency. Goulart openly wooed the votes of Brazil's Communists. It cost him thousands of votes; Brazilians flocked to the U.D.N. Said Juracy* last week: "Our party has obviously prospered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Coming of Age | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Next day Kubitschek and Zubiria flew on to Uruguay, deciding, by the time they arrived, that they felt "like citizens of the same country." After a noisy airport reception, the Brazilian President left for his own capital, where Vice-President Joao ("Jango") Goulart was entertaining Aramburu; Kubitschek managed to rush from the airport to the final reception for the visiting Argentine. Next day Aramburu sped off to Uruguay for a tumultuous one-day visit before returning to Buenos Aires-and Kubitschek settled down to await the arrival a few hours later of Bolivia's Hernan Siles Zuazo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Comings & Goings | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Brazil's Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart and his pretty wife arrived in Washington last week for a state visit that turned into an immediate personal hit. Goulart, one of the most colorful and controversial of Brazil's traditionally high-voltage politicians, was welcomed warmly by Vice President Nixon, talked at length with Secretary of State Dulles, dropped in to chat with President Eisenhower, conferred earnestly with A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief George Meany, and still had time to attend all the formal dinners and receptions that go with a state visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Hit Visit | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...questions, have an answer for everything. He chartered a DC-3, fitted it out as a combination office, bedroom and conference room, covered 100,000 miles in the most strenuous search for votes in the annals of Brazilian politics. His wife Sarah organized women's J-J (Juscelino-Jango) clubs throughout the country, made speeches on TV, kept up her husband's morale with her cheerful, unflagging conviction that he would win. "I was against Juscelino's going into politics," she said. "But when he went ahead anyway, I was right there beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Man from Minas | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...bloodless "preventive revolution" (TIME. Nov. 21) with the avowed intention of seeing to it that President-elect Juscelino Kubitschtk is duly inaugurated on Jan. 31. But are they also willing to guarantee the inauguration of leftish, controversial Vice President-elect Joao Goulart? The many Brazilians who dislike and mistrust "Jango" Goulart were eager to believe rumors that army chiefs would try to pressure him into resigning his claim to the vice-presidency. In a statement to the press last week, War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott squelched the rumors. "If the electoral tribunal declares Senhor Goulart elected," he said, "he must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Word from the Army | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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