Word: oswaldo
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...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...
Brazil's dictatorship began tightening the screws. Fortnight ago Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha was to have been honored by the Society of the Friends of America. Police arrived before the ceremony, padlocked the Society's clubrooms. Since then Aranha had been absent from his desk at the Foreign Ministry. Brazilians guessed that he had submitted his resignation...
...evening he came home from work, tired and late. He ate his black beans and went to bed. Soon Ricardina started the service. In a turban and bright red robes, she screamed incantations before the "pegi" (altar) to "Xango" (God of Thunder). The holy uproar swelled. At the climax, Oswaldo Candido da Silva, the "Pae de Santo" (High Priest) beheaded a squawking chicken.* The congregation made suitable noises...
Under the auspices of the Brazilian Government and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Winchell whirled about the country. He talked with big & little Brazilians, to U.S. officers and men stationed in Brazil. In São Paulo's big industrial plants he made brief translated talks to the workers. His biggest official hit was at a press banquet in Rio when he raised his cup of coffee to the level of his Brazilian host's cup and gave this toast: "Never above you-never beneath you-always beside you." The Brazilian press adopted the toast as a slogan...