Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholic Civic Union was demonstrating against what it considered the fraudulent election of the Government's official P.R.M. (Mexican Revolutionary Party) candidate for mayor. Soldiers, on hand to guarantee the P.R.M. mayor's tenancy in office, opened fire. Luterio fell: So did the young daughter of Pedro Ramirez (see cut) and 25 others...
...Excellency Pedro G. Beltran, the Peruvian ambassador, was Harvard's VIP (Very Important Person) guest Wednesday. He was received by David M. Little '17, Secretary to the University, in the morning and then toured the Yard, the libraries, and Fogg Museum...
Getulio's War Minister, General Pedro Aurelio GÓes Monteiro, forthwith ordered the Brazilian Army, seasoned by its recent expedition to the Italian front, into the streets with an imposing display of U.S. tanks, half-tracks and machine guns. In no time Vargas was out and Supreme Court Justice José Linhares had taken over the Presidency. A new, largely civilian Cabinet was formed. Two days later, the tanks rolled quietly back to their lairs. No one had been killed...
This week Vargas backers rioted in the streets. Tough Joao Alberto Lins de Barros, chief of the powerful federal police force, resigned, and Getulio's sinister, trigger-happy brother, Benjamin, replaced him. Canny old War Minister General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro also stepped out. The commander of the Rio de Janeiro military district ordered all enlisted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel to report to their barracks. The city tensed; U.S. officials ordered all U.S. sailors off the streets...
Originator of the jogo do bicho was one Baron Drummond, a bluff, bawdy, Brazilian-born Englishman, to whom Emperor Dom Pedro II gave a title and the concession to the Rio zoo. To popularize the zoo, the Baron encouraged visitors to guess the identity of an animal concealed behind a curtain, paid off to winners. In time the guessing game became a tremendously popular numbers game, with different numbers for 25 Brazilian beasts...