Word: kubitscheks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...target of General Lett's ire is the opposition National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), of which Tenorio is a prominent member. The U.D.N. deputies have taken advantage of congressional immunity to insult high army brass in speeches; allied with other blocs in Congress, they have also sabotaged President Juscelino Kubitschek's anti-inflation program, blatantly voted themselves subsidized cars and salary hikes...
...salute one day last week heralded the arrival of a green leather-bound volume at the opening of Brazil's Congress. The book contained President Juscelino Kubitschek's 294-page state of the nation message. Its tone, as a House of Deputies secretary droned it out, in summary, was proud and hopeful...
...Kubitschek had already made clear in his New Year's message to the people, the first year of his five-year development plan had to be spent mainly in the unspectacular business of laying the groundwork. Nevertheless, 1956 did produce unexpected progress. Almost as though he could hardly believe Brazil's good fortune, Kubitschek reported that...
...Inflation continued, "principally because of the increase in government and military pay" decreed by the previous Congress, but the administration is fighting it by holding down on bank credit. Showing his awareness of the problem, President Kubitschek warned that "in order to reconcile development with stability, it will be necessary to subordinate the carrying out of our objectives to the raising of noninflationary capital through taxation and other forms of compulsory capitalization...
...front of Rio's War Ministry, the November Front hailed Lott as "the general of the people" and presented him with a $5,000 gold-hilted sword. The rally brought on a storm of opposition charges against General Lott as a man of dangerous ambition. Last week President Kubitschek acted to cope with both the November Front and the outcries against it. First he issued an order forbidding military officers to mix into politics. As an example, the government placed a top November Front leader, Lieut. Colonel Nemo Canabarro, under barracks arrest for 20 days. Then the President called...