Word: lott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour closed-door session one night last week. The urgent problem: what to do about the sudden emergence of a dubious, rabble-rousing political movement called the November Front, which had won the tacit support of one of the most powerful men in Brazil, War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott...
...leader of the November 1955 "preventive revolution" to assure the inauguration of President-elect Kubitschek, General Lott stood out as a stout defender of law and democracy. But after playing his role as guardian of the constitution, he lingered on in the councils of the government. Kubitschek's opponents charged that the President was Lett's puppet...
...public meeting, the three county commissions heeded a growing public uproar, in effect kicked Dr. Coggins out of her job. She had had no hearing; the protests of state officials and a couple of local residents that her "indiscretion" be "forgiven" were overruled. "Fire her! Fire her!" cried Jesse Lott of Monticello from the audience. "When we give one inch, we are going to give the whole thing. It is time to stand up and be white men, not jellybacks." When one of Dr. Coggins' friends asked a county commissioner if he had not eaten with Negroes on hunting...
...President talked of new hydroelectric projects, highway construction and agriculture, then came to the main point of his talk. Faced with growing public uneasiness over inflation and opposition claims that he is little more than a puppet manipulated by War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott (TIME, May 21), Kubitschek assured his countrymen that he had "enough authority, energy and fighting spirit to guarantee a full five-year term which will not fall into the abyss of government marked by precariousness and instability." Raising his voice, he added, "From the people I deserve confidence, and I ask that they wait...
...Cabinet and Congressional majority, Senhor Kubitschek chose the latter." In at least two key Cabinet posts, however, Kubitschek placed his first choices: as Finance Minister, shrewd Federal Deputy José Maria Alkmin, a loyal friend since the telegraph-office days in Belo Horizonte; as War Minister, General Henrique Teixeira Lott...