Word: paulista
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grande do Sul and cattle have been on top ever since, even though the Paulistas boycotted the election which President Vargas got around to holding in 1934. What Rio Grandenses have been wondering lately is whether this scramble has upped their State or merely shrewd Getulio Vargas. No sooner did the State's No. 2 politico, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, cast an anxious eye toward the Presidency than he was shipped off to Washington as Ambassador. General Flores da Cunha thereupon encouraged a Paulista, Armando Salles de Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus qualify...
Both the Federal Treasury and that of revolting Sao Paulo State started to print money as soon as the war began last July. "We issued more than 50,000,000 milreis," admitted the Paulista bankers. "We issued 400,000,000." confessed Rio's moneymen. But what is a total of 450,000,000 milreis ($32,400,000) between friends...