Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong, and raked in earnings estimated as high as 6,000,000 pesos. It was headed by a onetime Nazi sailor, nicknamed El Alemán, who first came to Argentina in 1939 when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the Rio de la Plata. Among the other big moneymakers were fruit hucksters, waiters and farmers, who were soon buying Cadillacs, Buicks and beach property. Known only by nicknames such as El Crespo (Curly) El Vasquito (Little Basque), or Juancito (Johnny), each gang member had his own assigned wheel which he had studied thoroughly...
With Getulio Vargas' inaugural this week, Rio planned the greatest carnival in history. Every night tambourines sounded in samba time from the capital's shanty-lined favela hills. For the favela folk, pro-Vargas almost to a man, the return of the "father of the poor" called for a big blowout. In their "samba schools," where fathers, mothers and children had paid dues all year toward costumes and a community float for the carnaval parade, the sentiment was the same: "We'll make this one for the velhinho [little...
...your information, there's someone else in your place"). The second, fretting over the city's perennial water shortage, was called I Hope It Rains Three Days in a Row. No sooner were the winners announced than it rained three days in a row. Now all that Rio asked was clear skies-and perhaps a word from the velhinho that he would legalize gambling-and it would be a carnaval which no one could forget...
Vital Statistics. Born: April 19, 1883, at Sāo Borja, Rio Grande do Sul. Height: 5 ft. 2 in. (making him the hemisphere's shortest chief executive). Married (in 1911). Children: two sons, two daughters. Religion: Catholic, who rarely goes to Mass...
Downfall & Comeback. In 1945, when dictatorships went out of fashion, army booted him out of office in a bloodless coup. Retiring to his native Rio Grande do Sul, he bided his time. As postwar inflation worsened, the Dutra government's popularity waned. By campaign time last year, the forces opposed to him had disintegrated...