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...hottest politician in Brazil today is a swart, heavyset, pulsating man named Adhemar Pereira de Barros. "Our Adhemar," as his admirers call him, is governor of the state of São Paulo, Brazil's richest province, home of its heavy industry, and exporter of 60% of its cotton and coffee. Its capital city of São Paulo is the fastest growing big city in the world...
...constitution through the provincial legislature. And the Catholic Church had dropped its hostility toward him, which had arisen from his opportunist pre-election alliance with the Communists last January. His daughter would be married this week in the Church of the Convent of Mount Carmel by São Paulo's Archbishop, Carlo Carmelo, Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta...
...well-to-do coffee planter, he romped with gold-medal honors-through the University of Brazil, where he studied medicine and played water polo. After two years at the Bayer Laboratory in Berlin, Germany, and at Johns Hopkins Medical School, he hung out his shingle in São Paulo. But the practice of medicine was slow and dull. He turned to politics and became a strong-voiced deputy in the state legislature...
Because he had often attacked Dictator Getulio Vargas, it was a good deal of a surprise when, in 1938, Vargas appointed him São Paulo's interventor, i.e., governor. De Barros thinks that Vargas expected him to "hang himself." Only, he laughs, "I didn't." As interventor, he built roads, hospitals and schools. Then, in 1941, after a fight with the Dictator's unsavory brother Benjamin, De Barros was fired. He had taken office a poor man; he left it the owner of plantations, textile factories, a dolomite mine and a candy factory...
Help from Leonor. At his famed Thursday night radio broadcasts from the yellow-stuccoed governor's palace, she sits with him. Often he seems to be speaking to her rather than to the cross section of São Paulo that crowds around the table or to the thousands of Paulistas who hear his voice through loudspeakers in the dusty squares of distant villages. The broadcasts have become a weekly event for listeners-in southern Brazil...