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Born. To Tito Schipa (pronounced Skeepa), 57, Italian-born ex-Metropolitan Opera tenor, and Teresa Borgna Schipa, 22, his second wife: his third child, her first, a son; in Lisbon. Name: Tito Luis Joao Michelangelo. Weight...
...police Chief Joao Alberto took back his old office. Brazilians waited to see whether wily Getulio Vargas had been outsmarted, or had again outsmarted them...
This week Vargas backers rioted in the streets. Tough Joao Alberto Lins de Barros, chief of the powerful federal police force, resigned, and Getulio's sinister, trigger-happy brother, Benjamin, replaced him. Canny old War Minister General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro also stepped out. The commander of the Rio de Janeiro military district ordered all enlisted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel to report to their barracks. The city tensed; U.S. officials ordered all U.S. sailors off the streets...
...staff to determine what the U.S. can do to speed up Brazilian industrial output for the war. He saw magnificent resources-largest high-grade iron deposits in the world, rich bauxite fields, big nickel deposits, unlimited water power. Last week Cooke was ready to return to the U.S. With Joao Alberto he issued a prospectus of the report he will submit to the U.S. Government...
...President's messages of assurance to Portugal and Spain brought quick replies. Portuguese Minister Dr. Joao Antonio de Bianchi delivered his Government's answer: Portugal considered the American message "another proof of the unalterable and confident friendship existing between our two nations." From Spain's Fascist leader, General Francisco Franco (whose radio toned down its pro-Axis bias) came a letter...