Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rio Grande do Sul and cattle have been on top ever since, even though the Paulistas boycotted the election which President Vargas got around to holding in 1934. What Rio Grandenses have been wondering lately is whether this scramble has upped their State or merely shrewd Getulio Vargas. No sooner did the State's No. 2 politico, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, cast an anxious eye toward the Presidency than he was shipped off to Washington as Ambassador. General Flores da Cunha thereupon encouraged a Paulista, Armando Salles de Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus...
Roared Flores da Cunha: "I propose to remain within the Constitution and the law although I will do all to assure autonomy of Rio Grande and to preserve the dignity of its citizens...
...Rio de Janeiro, Presidential spokesmen fastened on the word law, assured all concerned that not a shot would be fired. In Buenos Aires, where Getulio Vargas is a despised Brazilian upstart, the press fastened on the word autonomy, shrieked that Brazil was on the verge of bloody civil war. Upon the commotion then descended the iron Brazilian press censorship which is as thoroughgoing as any in the world. European and U. S. correspondents cabled as little as possible to their editors, judiciously deciding that civil commotion would have to become civil war in fact before it would be worth while...
...larger than the United Kingdom in population, presidential politics are the private affair of three kingpin States: Sao Paulo (coffee & cotton), rich, populous Minas Geraes, whose plateaus sparkle with manganese and diamonds, and most of all, in recent years, of cattle-raising, tobacco-growing Rio Grande do Sul (see map). What made big Francisco Flores da Cunha pop so explosively in Rio Grande last week was his shrewd suspicion that Getulio Vargas is contemplating too bold a gambit in this intimate game of chess...
Coffee 6 Cattle. It was supposedly for the honor of Rio Grande do Sul that in 1930 General Flores da Cunha's Gauchos rode tumultuously into Rio de Janeiro, hitched their horses to the obelisk on bosky Avenida Rio Branco, bottled old President Washington Luis up in jail and helped Getulio Vargas become President of Brazil. Washington Luis and President-elect Julio Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world...