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...four candidates in the race for the Presidency, two were moralizers and two materialists, General Juarez Távora and Right-Winger Plinio Salgado, both considered deeply religious, vowed to clean up corruption. Juscelino Kubitschek and rich, Falstaffan Adhemar de Barros, both M.D.s, former state governors and practical politicians, vowed to raise living standards. Barros ran well ahead of Kubitschek in the big cities; Kubitschek piled up his plurality in the inland towns and farm villages, where the P.S.D. machine operated most efficiently, and where most of the voters had laid eyes on no other presidential candidate. The final count...
...indelicacy, intimidation and _ revolting brutality," snapped Rio's leading conservative newrpaper Correio da Manhã. "A tremendous blow to the Good Neighbor-policy ... an unwarrinted set of interference," cried Colombia's Foreign Minister Evaristo Sourdis. While a crowded Chamber chorused "Muito bem-hear, hear," Brazilian Deputy Plinio Barreto boomed: "For reasons of demagoguery, electoral expediency or exhibitionism, Senator Gillette has roused an anti-Brazilian movement in the U.S." A Nicaraguan cartoonist drew Senator Gillette stripping Central America's coffee trees to their roots with a thin, blue blade...
From his exile in Portugal, Führer Plinio Salgado advised Brazilians that now, as always, the Integralists believe in universal suffrage. Pointing toward the Dec. 2 presidential elections, Salgado urged his followers to bore into the existing political parties, form strategic blocks...
Immediate search was begun for cadaverous-faced, black-mustached Plinio Salgado, the "Supreme Chief of the Green Shirts" who has been in hiding since Vargas outlawed the movement as a political party (TIME, Nov. 22). At last reports Salgado was still hiding. Arrested as leaders of the Putsch were Belmiro Valdeverde, chief of the "Revolutionary Dissident Wing" of the Party, and Admiral Eduardo Taveres...
...swashbuckling Governor José Flores da Cunha, whom President Vargas had to replace with a Federal military interventor. A temporary lifting of the state of war for campaign purposes soon had Brazil's Leftists noisily at the throat of Brazil's green-shirted Fascist Integralistas, whose leader Plinio Salgado wears a Hitler mustache and advocates in misty Portuguese a "corporative State." Last fortnight more serious trouble appeared. The Departmento Nacional do Café, which has destroyed $638,750,000 worth of Brazil's surplus coffee to keep up the world price, announced that its deficit...