Word: monteiro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third term "following United States precedent" and now rules instead as generalissimo of the army. He was much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...
While General Goes Monteiro, Chief of Staff of Brazil's Army, last week basked in a warm welcome from the U. S. Government, U. S. educators found Brazil's capital, Rio de Janeiro, somewhat chillier...
...nonpolitical, nonsectarian, decidedly conservative organization, this year accepted Brazil's invitation to hold its biennial conference (from August 6 to 11) in Rio de Janeiro. Few weeks ago, after some Federation members had already started to roll down to Rio, Brazil's Government (in which General Goes Monteiro's Army is potent) abruptly called the meeting...
Diplomatic butter in the form of $120,000,000 credit was served last March to Brazil's Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha. Beady-eyed, flap-chinned General Goés Monteiro was on a military mission, returning the visit U. S. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall had just paid him. That capable soldier-diplomat was dispatched to Brazil after authoritarian-minded Goés Monteiro began toasting the discipline, glory and honor of the German Army and had accepted an invitation to review Nazi troops. Last week the U. S. War Department, announcing its plans to toast Goes Monteiro this...
Pedro de Goés Monteiro is a hard-drinking ex-cowboy who worships Napoleon, has false teeth, and in part owes his rise to Oswaldo Aranha. He talks so much about imbuing Brazilians with military spirit that he has had to deny any personal ambition to be a military dictator. To all appearances he is a good & loyal servant of Dictator-President Getulio Vargas and as such he will be accorded honors only less than those due a visiting ruler. A tank escort, a military guard at the Brazilian Embassy, a chat with Franklin Roosevelt, tea with Cordell Hull...