Word: kubitscheks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...town had spent most of the available public funds to build a hanging garden in a park. Says Furtado: "During that visit home, I decided to fight backwardness for Brazil's northeast, so that no more hanging gardens were built before the problems were solved." Ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek put him to work. After an hour's talk, Successor Quadros confirmed the appointment, raised Furtado to cabinet rank...
...painting "the Brazilian people being born, living and dying, in their rituals and feasts, at their work and play." Portinari's work has been in the pages of TIME'S ART section on several occasions, and he has also painted Brazilian Presidents Getulio Vargas and Juscelino Kubitschek, but this is his first TIME cover. Delighted at the assignment to paint his President, he recalled that he once painted a cousin of Quadros', and told her: "You have all the beauty in the family. There wasn't a centavo's worth left...
...League strongholds to round up propaganda smuggled in from Castro's Cuba, and arms. In Brazil's labor movement, once heavily Communist-infiltrated. Quadros' men are working to cut the Reds "off at the knees." The unions used to be able to get handouts from the Kubitschek government. "Not any more." says Quadros' Labor Minister Francisco de Castro Neves. "I'm not playing games with them. I deal directly with democratic union leaders, and with nobody else. Already we have torn open the clenched fist of Communist control of many unions." Says Quadros himself: "Communists...
Economy Begins at Home. "I am going to wield the broom," he promised on inauguration night, "by the handle." Where Kubitschek ran his palace like an open house. Quadros ran it like a Marine barracks. He tossed Kubitschek's luxurious furnishings out of the executive offices, fired the fancy chef (he prefers beef, rice and beans), returned Kubitschek's $8,000 grand piano. "Economy," he said, "begins at home." Aides no longer walked; they ran. Locks barred the presidential doors, and red and green traffic lights informed ministers when to knock, when to wait. In the halls, guards...
...restore reality to the meaningless fiction of overstated income and understated outgo that passed for a national budget under ex-President Juscelino Ku-bitschek, Quadros issued his own flinty figures for next year. Adding up the funds needed to support the immense bureaucracy and public works program inherited from Kubitschek, Quadros predicted a deficit of $513 million-so great, said Quadros, that "a potential deficit of this size has never before been confessed by a chief of state...