Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into Rio's Mayrink Veiga radio station strode a general and a lieutenant carrying a submachine gun. Their announcement: "Vargas has abdicated." As an old presidential decree provided, Supreme Court Justice Jose Linhares had assumed the Presidency...
This week Vargas backers rioted in the streets. Tough Joao Alberto Lins de Barros, chief of the powerful federal police force, resigned, and Getulio's sinister, trigger-happy brother, Benjamin, replaced him. Canny old War Minister General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro also stepped out. The commander of the Rio de Janeiro military district ordered all enlisted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel to report to their barracks. The city tensed; U.S. officials ordered all U.S. sailors off the streets...
...Rio last week an aged Negro named Jacaranda decided to run for Congress. His program: legalization of Brazil's favorite gambling pastime, the jogo do bicho (animal game...
Originator of the jogo do bicho was one Baron Drummond, a bluff, bawdy, Brazilian-born Englishman, to whom Emperor Dom Pedro II gave a title and the concession to the Rio zoo. To popularize the zoo, the Baron encouraged visitors to guess the identity of an animal concealed behind a curtain, paid off to winners. In time the guessing game became a tremendously popular numbers game, with different numbers for 25 Brazilian beasts...
Spare Part. In Rio de Janeiro, an air line passenger who insisted on carrying his artificial leg instead of wearing it had to pay excess-baggage charges...