Word: oswaldo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Brazil's magnetic, dyspeptic Oswaldo Aranha breathed easier and ate better. After scrutinizing 50 X-ray plates, specialists had found no trace of the ailment which has been troubling the former Ambassador to Washington. Aranha got the news in the nick of time. This week he is taking on a strenuous job: Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Security Council. During March, he will be the council's president...
Silver-maned ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stirred up the already turbulent presidential election campaign with a story that had Brazil by the ears. Two years ago, related soft-spoken Aranha, General Eurico Caspar Dutra conspired to overthrow President Getulio Vargas. (Current point of the story: Dutra is a candidate for the Presidency in Brazil's December national election, and Vargas is ostensibly supporting him.) The plot was nipped by Vargas before the coup could be executed, Aranha said...
...where Candidate Dutra denied all, the newspapers played the story to the hilt. But, editorially, the press took the revelation with a grain of salt. Said the Government-owned A Noite: "Oswaldo Aranha, tired of making history, is now inclined to narrate history, and because of the fire of his temperament and the luxury of his imagination, places himself in the center of the stage...
...were slap-happy with newfound freedom. Newspapers, with the exception of Brazil-Portugal*, sharply rapped the dictatorial Vargas regime for its truck with fascism, its curtailment of the vote and free speech. They speculated wildly about the still unscheduled elections. Names of hitherto unmentionable oppositionists, like ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and deposed Air Chief Eduardo Gomes, were headlined. Brazilians bought early editions by the handful, read them goggle-eyed. Gasped one: "I can't stand it! There's too much oxygen!" Said Diario Carioca: "The youngest of us never even knew of such freedom except by hearsay...
Still at large last week was Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's great, pro-democratic foreign minister, who was driven from office last August by the Dictator's militarist henchmen. Still in command of his forces was popular Air General Eduardo Gomes, reputed presidential candidate of the underground opposition...