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...beat him at his own game, she succeeds in developing oil wells by the dozen, and presently finds that her lust for vengeance has turned into a lust for money and power. Meanwhile, her emotional life develops a three-way split between her loyalty to a rich Indian suitor (Pedro Armendariz), her love for her young geologist partner (Robert Preston), and her new-found infatuation for Oilman Gough...
...Mammoth Cave, compared San Francisco's Golden Gate to Rio's mountain-girt Guanabara Bay. In Boston he had long talks with Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier; when he came back to the Philadelphia exposition, Alexander Graham Bell showed him his newly invented telephone. "My God," said Dom Pedro, "it talks...
...Mother, God & the U.S." This week, for the first time since Dom Pedro's visit, another Brazilian chief of state was due in the U.S. During his ten-day stay, President Eurico Caspar Dutra, accompanied by his son António João Dutra, his daughter-in-law, and his naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect...
...itself with the motto on Brazil's flag: "Order and Progress." This has meant, by & large, an affinity for the democracy which has characterized the country's modern history. It was the army which took over the republican movement from the disgruntled ex-slaveholders and overthrew Dom Pedro II in 1889. The first two Presidents under the republic's U.S.-patterned constitution were army officers. After that, under a long line of civilian Presidents, the army upheld the constitution...
...situation changed abruptly. In the turbulent presidential election, Governor Getulio Vargas of Rio Grande do Sul was defeated by Julio Prestes, a protégé of the incumbent President, bumbling, liberal Washington Luiz. Flanked by fellow gaúcho Oswaldo Aranha and the swashbuckling General Pedro Aurelio de Góes Monteiro, Vargas marched triumphantly on Rio. The army-including Lieut. Colonel Eurico Caspar Dutra-recognized the popular strength of Vargas' movement and backed...