Word: machado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cristiano Machado, 57, little-known lawyer from the pivotal state of Minas Gerais, nominee of President Dutra's official Social Democratic Party (P.S.D...
...many Brazilians wrote him off as a crusty aristocrat, and the Brigadeiro characteristically refused to cut loose with the slashing spiels that might win him wider backing. "I have built my house," he snapped. "Now I can't add any more floors to it." Dutra's Candidate Machado was even less disposed to lash out from the stump. But the mild little man from Minas was the administration's choice, and the government machine has yet to lose a Brazilian election...
After Cuba's Ambassador Luis Machado y Ortega presented his credentials to President Truman last week, reporters crowded round to ask the new envoy about Cuban sugar exports. "Cuba will give you all the sugar you need," Machado assured them, "[but] how about some ballplayers? This is one way of sending technical assistance to the U.S.-Point Four in reverse, you know...
...political picture today, moreover, compares favorably with the picture only 20 years ago, when Machado ruled in Cuba, Gómez in Venezuela, Ibáñez in Chile and Leguía in Peru. It does not compare unfavorably with the picture a dozen years ago, when Vargas was dictator in Brazil, Ubico in Guatemala, Martinez in El Salvador, Carías in Honduras, Benavides in Peru, Busch in Bolivia, and Terra in Uruguay...
...President Eurico Caspar Dutra (who may not succeed himself), the Social Democrats (PSD) had nominated short, affable Federal Deputy Cristiano Machado, 56. An engineer by training, Machado's main qualifications were that he came from politically pivotal Minas Gerais and that he had practically no enemies. Outside his home state, he was almost unknown. The conservative National Democratic Union (UDN) had also made its choice: Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, 54, hero of an unsuccessful 1922 uprising and the man whom Dutra beat...