Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full third of the time. Another third he puts in roaming around Brazil, scribbling his daily syndicated column (2,000,000 readers) on old envelopes and odd scraps of paper. He divides the rest of his time between his news agency's two main nerve centers in Rio and Sao Paulo...
Excitement mounted in Rio. Though Getulio was not expected to arrive till early this week, bandwagon-jumping politicos staged one banquet of homage after another. Cardinal Dom Jaime Camara announced a special Mass commemorating Vargas' election, although the church press had backed the Brigadeiro during the campaign. The staid Jockey Club said it would revive its annual "Prix Getulio Vargas," which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. At week's end a new samba was sweeping to the top of the pre-Carnival popularity list...
...sweltering day last week Publisher Franciscode Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello ushered the President of the Republic and other wilted dignitaries into a cable car for the dizzy ride to the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain. The occasion: formal inauguration of Rio's first television station. High above the shining crescents of the capital's white beaches, the party sipped champagne, listened to speeches and to songs by a choir from one of Publisher Chateaubriand's child-care centers. Across the vast reaches of Brazil, Chateaubriand's radio stations and newspapers proclaimed the significance...
...with darting black eyes, restless hands and a big head, "Chato" is a fighting cock whose hard work, smart financing, fast talk and seething energy have created Latin America's biggest news empire, and made him very nearly the most powerful man in Brazil. He first fireballed into Rio in 1917 as a brash young lawyer from the north with a driving urge to write for the newspapers. After a spectacular career as reporter and editor, he borrowed 3,000,000 cruzeiros in 1925 and bought his first newspaper, Rio's O Jornal. Generally regarded as Brazil...
...Spot. Soon after Getulio Vargas came to power in 1930, Chato quarreled with him and joined the abortive Sao Paulo uprising. Getulio forced him into bankruptcy, then ordered him placed aboard a Japanese freighter in Rio harbor and transported to Far Eastern exile. Though Chato succeeded in talking his way ashore, and Getulio in due course restored his properties, the chastened publisher made it a rule never to have trouble with Vargas again. In last year's election he avoided taking a clear stand for or against Getulio...