Word: quitandinha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week, in the salmon-pink Boite of Quitandinha, a hotel and onetime gambling casino in the cool mountains north of Rio, the top brass of hemispheric diplomacy will meet to put the Chapultepec agreement into permanent, postwar treaty form. Secretary of State George Marshall will be there; so will Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Warren Austin, U.S. representative to the U.N. and Texas Democrat Senator Tom Connally. President Truman might show...
Whatever happens at Rio, one man stands to gain. He is sharp-eyed Joaquim Rolla, owner of the Quitandinha Hotel. Anxious to stamp a legitimate "Quitandinha" dateline on the deliberations, Rolla got the Brazilian Government to install a postoffice in the building. Recently his pressagent, dining a group of reporters at the lakeside chalet, hopped up and cried, "Wait a minute, gentlemen." The reporters, forks in midair, waited. "Remember," he shouted, "this is to be the Quitandinha Conference...
...Brazilian Government thought it had just the place for the oft-postponed Inter-American Conference, now scheduled for next month. The place was Quitandinha, the plush resort hotel just outside the summer capital of Petropolis. But the Government had hardly announced its choice when foreign correspondents let out a loud squawk...
...correspondents well knew that the hotel, with its three bars and five dining rooms, its two swimming pools and its comfortable if chichi rooms, is the best in Brazil. What they were squawking about were the communications between Quitandinha and Rio. They were bad. Only six telephone lines run to Rio. Besides, the correspondents saw no chance of finding quarters in the hotel's 350 rooms. They would have to commute three miles to Petropolis or 40-odd miles...
...Another: the hotel, its casino dark, has been losing $10,000 a month ever since the Government ended licensed gambling last year (TIME, May 13, 1946). Holding the conference there would be one way of partially repaying suave Joaquim Rolla, Brazil's former gambling king, and owner of Quitandinha...