Word: parahyba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rebel loomed one Juarez Tavora. He began the week a captain, ended it a general. Operating in the northern rebel sector?that is, north of Rio de Janeiro?this young daredevil was credited with seizing the state governments of Parahyba and Pernambuco, whence he advanced south upon the huge state of Bahia which adjoins Minas Geraes. Like a dashing Phil Sheridan the "General" moved his army with such vigorous celerity that he was several times reported to be in several places at once...
...state is a more or less swashbuckling stickler for "states' rights." In Rio de Janeiro, scene of no revolt last week, the Brazilian Congress met and quietly voted $12,000,000 to put down simultaneous revolutions in the three states of Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Geraes and Parahyba. With 120 ballots favoring and eight opposed, the Congress declared "state of siege" (similar to "martial...
Livestock is the defeated presidential candidate (Senhor Getulio Vargas), President of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, popular in other livestock states of Minas Geraes and Parahyba. It was naturally these three states that rallied in revolution last week around defeated Candidate Vargas. He has charged for months that agents of the "Coffee Oligarchs" assassinated the vice-presidential candidate who was his running mate. He says that he would now be President-elect instead of Dr. Prestes had not the "Coffee Government" of President Washington Luis perpetrated gross ballot-box frauds...
Brazil, already troubled with a minor insurrection in the state of Parahyba (TIME, Aug. 11, 18), rang with rumors last week of an impending revolution in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Details were not forthcoming. The Brazilian Embassy in Washington, the Brazilian foreign minister, President Washington Luis united in an almost hysterical desire to quash reports. Said the President's secretary, Senhor Mendes Goncalves: "His Excellency authorizes me to state that the situation of Brazil is at present as it has been in recent times, of the most perfect economical, political and financial order...
Joao Pessoa, President (Governor) of the State of Parahyba was killed in a Pernambuco candy store fortnight ago by an adherent of José Pereira, rebellious Parahyba State Deputy who has been waging civil war in the interior of Parahyba for five-and-a-half months (TIME, Aug. 11). Joao Pessoa lay in his coffin eleven days and nights and none dared bring him home for fear that the arrival of his coffin would start riots in the chief cities of Parahyba. Joao Pessoa was buried last week, not in Parahyba where he lived, or in Pernambuco where he died...