Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silva Quadros, 43, held a huge 1,600,000-vote lead over the incumbent administration's man, Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, and seemed certain to roll up the greatest plurality in history. Quadros not only won his home state of São Paulo, he also jumped ahead in Lott's own state of Minas Gerais and won the no man's land in between. Said Quadros in a message to his nation: "Without reservations or hate, I call on all Brazilians to labor for the common welfare...
...partly honest." At parochial prep school (Quadros is a practicing Catholic), the tall youth with the oddly staring eyes* was so rebellious that he learned large chunks of Ovid and Horace by heart in after-school punishment time. After a shaky start in law school at São Paulo's state university, he went through his final years with top marks, married a beautiful girl who at first glance thought him "the ugliest man I ever met," and started off on his career...
Intense, shock-haired and magnetic, Quadros plunged into politics in 1946 at the urging of high school pupils to whom he was teaching Portuguese literature, won a seat on São Paulo's city council. He has come out ahead in every election since-state deputy, mayor of São Paulo city (the Chicago of Brazil), governor of São Paulo state. On the stump, he emphasized the fact that he worked around the clock by letting his beard go three days without a shave. Once in office, he built a reputation for honesty and efficiency...
Debts Paid, Foundation Built. In his first year as São Paulo mayor, Quadros paid off the old deficit of $12.5 million and balanced the budget at $55 million; in his first year as São Paulo governor, he paid off an overdue $30 million loan from the Bank of Brazil, and still managed to chart an efficient public works foundation for what is now the biggest industrial complex in Brazil...
...program, but he intends to hobble inflation. "If inflation could create wealth, there would be no more economic problems." he says. The question is whether he can impose his strong will on Brazil, which has become accustomed to Kubitschek's free-spending, money-printing ways. São Paulo city and São Paulo state were both small enough so that Quadros could exercise the in-person supervision needed to keep officials at work and honest. But the entire, sprawling nation is something else...