Word: justo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidents of cocky little Uruguay, big Argentina and bigger Brazil have been exchanging goodwill visits for a year. Last fortnight Brazil's Getulio Dornelles Vargas called on Argentina's Agustin P. Justo (TIME, June 3). Last week Vargas went on to Montevideo, with his wife & daughter, to visit Uruguay's smart, stolid President Gabriel Terra, who runs a firm dictatorship over the most up-&-coming people in South America...
...occasion was the state visit of paunchy, pompous Senhor Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, to big, soldierly President Agustin P. Justo of Argentina. In 1933 President Justo paid a call on President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro which was notably successful in furthering trade and tourist traffic between the two countries. Now with suggestions from the Silver Jubilee in London, and a few original ideas of her own. Argentina was set to give her Brazilian neighbors a return welcome they would not soon forget...
Already in the harbor was the Brazilian transport Siqueira with 600 army and navy cadets aboard, and Brazil's pride, the brass band of the Brazilian Military Academy. Up to the dock where waited President Justo, and in their shiniest toppers, his entire Cabinet, warped the great São Paulo. Guns belched out national salutes, and in the midst of the hubbub there was suddenly a great banging of crate lids and fluttering of wings. Members of the Buenos Aires Pigeon Society were releasing 10,000 bewildered white birds, each with one wing striped blue and white...
Saturday was Argentina's Independence Day in memory of that May day in 1810 when crowds in Buenos Aires forced the resignation of the last Spanish viceroy and set up a native junta to govern the country. Presidents Justo & Vargas reviewed Brazilian cadets, aviators and most of the Argentine army from a stand in Congress Square. President Vargas was groggy on his feet and suffering from a bad cold but he kept bravely on with the celebration...
...salute and all craft in sight broke out bunting. Through the bright spring morning air sounded the bells of Buenos Aires' 103 churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach through four miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing, at his request, the minimum of necessary furniture...