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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technically, Rio has always been a temporary capital. The Constitution of Independence in 1824 called for a federal district (on U.S. lines) somewhere near the geographical center of the country; four succeeding constitutions repeated the provision. But nothing ever came of the idea, despite its periodic champions. Last week, poker-faced President Dutra said that he was dead serious about building a permanent federal capital in the dry, wild, highland cattle country of the deep interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Constitutional & Healthful | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

From green hilltops to white beaches Rio echoed with speeches and campaign songs, and the walls were splashed with posters. Seven hundred candidates-a mixed bag of newsmen, poets, businessmen, radio humorists, housewives and even a bookmaker-were noisily campaigning for the 50 council seats at stake in next month's municipal elections. They represented 14 political parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Candidates | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...organized samba clubs, ran off dancing contests. Winners got loving cups marked with such slogans as "More If You Want It" and "Each Year It's Better." Observers gave the Communists a good chance to win a majority of the council, wondered how they would get along with Rio's Government-appointed mayor who might not have much use for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Candidates | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Baron. One Communist up for election was Rio's chief wag, the gentle, bearded Apparicio Torelly. A celebrated journalist, he is known to most Brazilians as the Baron of Itararé. He took that pseudonym after writing, during one of the country's revolutions, a series on the Battle of the Itararé River-a battle that occurred only in his typewriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Candidates | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Last week cariocas by the hundreds queued up on hot Rio docks to board the Lugano, a rehabilitated 13,000-ton troopship. On board, they gaped at a 250,000-book exhibit, some 1,000 paintings (mostly bad), modern ceramics, Chianti in wicker baskets, baby pants and electric iceboxes. All displays were for sale; they sold like nylons to Brazilians, who were used to paying more for their own shoddy products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Come to the Fair | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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