Word: kubitscheks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juscelino Kubitschek, 54, peppery ex-governor of inland Minas Gerais, candidate of the Social Democrats and the Vargas-created Labor Party. Worth many a vote to Kubitschek is his claim to be the political heir of Vargas, whose name is still magic among down-at-heel Brazilians. After first denouncing Kubitschek, Brazil's outlawed but vote-swinging Communist Party recently made an opportunistic switch and endorsed him. But he can hardly be called a pink, much less a Red. In fact, he fits into no ideological pigeonhole, but campaigns as a man of action who promises to build, build...
...Governor Juscelino Kubitschek (whom the army dislikes): "Canrobert's speech is not in harmony with reality...
Adhemar's entry in effect turns the Brazilian election into a three-way race. The other top contenders are Governor Juscelino Kubitschek of Minas Gerais state, heir to the leftish populista forces of the late President Getulio Vargas, and General Juarez Tavora, hero of the conservative military leaders whose determination to clean up the mess in Rio led to Vargas' resignation and suicide last year. But rumors were louder than ever in Rio last week that the officers would postpone the election unless their man seems likely...
Brassbound General. Brazil's top military leaders are staunchly opposed to Candidate Kubitschek because he was politically linked with Getulio Vargas. After Kubitschek won the nomination of the Social Democratic Party, headed by Vargas' son-in-law, a coalition of right-and-center party leaders, backed by Café Filho and the generals, decided to put up brainy General Juarez Távora, Café Filho's chief military adviser and by reputation a man of brassbound integrity...
General Távora protested that he had been innocently unaware of the deal, but Governor Quadros promptly denied that. Warned by his fellow generals to get out of the race, Távora announced that he had decided not to run. Shattered, the anti-Kubitschek coalition lamely chose a substitute presidential candidate: Etelvino Lins, onetime governor of the state of Pernambuco and leader of a dissident faction of Kubitschek's own party. Meanwhile, Juscelino Kubitschek, having, duly resigned as governor of Minas Gerais, was wearing a big, confident smile...