Word: lisboa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perch in the Golden Cage belongs to Speaker Celso Lisboa, 45. The owner of a private school, Lisboa got himself elected in 1950, proved himself a warm friend of the thousands of school-age children in Rio who are deprived of an education by lack of buildings and teachers. He pushed through a bill authorizing the city administration to pay private-school board and tuition for schoolless children. When the bill passed, Lisboa himself bought a second private school, now collects $40,000 a month under the terms of his own bill. Running for re-election as speaker last March...
...threw the switch on Lisboa's joy train is a Rio reporter named Fidelis Amaral Netto. Running himself for a house seat in next October's elec tions, Amaral Netto a fortnight ago confronted the speaker and his cronies during a TV debate. Amaral Netto pointed out that salaries for civil servants attached to the 63-member federal senate are $1,000.-000 a year, and those of the 326-member federal chamber of deputies are $1,890,-000. How, he asked, could these expenses of Rio's 50-aldermen house...