Word: jornal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later in Rio, Chatô went rowing with a student named Joāo Calmon, who happened to be standing on the dock when the press lord arrived. After a couple of hours afloat, Chatô told the youth to report for work next day at his daily O Jornal...
...agencies functioning in our country, in view of the dissemination by these agencies of baseless stories of sensationalist or alarming character." The order called for "energetic steps for definitive repression" if the charges were true. Fidel Castro's news agency, Prensa Latina, cheered the order. But the independent Jornal do Brasil saw it as a clear threat to a free press: "If the President thinks he is going to take the press by the throat, order investigations right and left, silence newspapers without resistance, he is very much mistaken...
...Daily Express, often anti-American, cheered: "British people give their support to Kennedy." In Canada, the Calgary Herald wrote: "The United States has shown the utmost forbearance toward that unfortunate country ever since it fell into the hands of the Castro gang." Said Rio de Janeiro's O Jornal: "This invasion is the beginning of the movement to restore to democracy the Cuban revolution, betrayed by Fidel Castro and his Communist gang." Remarked a high-ranking Venezuelan official: "Kennedy is not crazy or stupid. Every country has the right to give its sympathy to whomever it wants...
...Quadros received, or rather dismissed, President Kennedy's special envoy deserves sharp criticism from all Brazilians." The criticism spread to include the whole subject of Quadros' headlong rush to "neutralism" during his six weeks in office. Wrote the influential Jornal do Brasil, heretofore one of Quadros' staunchest supporters: "Quadros, who in his campaign stressed the impossibility of ignoring the importance and existence of Red China, now appears to ignore the importance and existence of the U.S. What is the idea...
...Politicians are perplexed, responsible people are confused, workers are restless and officials fearful - all waiting for the man ordained by Providence," said the Jornal do Brasil. Besides, cacao shippers wanted to change export policies, hotelmen com plained (naming no names) that Brazilians spend more in foreign hotels than in their own, São Paulo politicians wanted Quadros to name a candidate for mayor...