Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazilian political patter, Queremistas (we want-ers) are tub-thumpers for President Getulio Vargas. In Rio last week, the Queremistas, with or without presidential encouragement, thumped resoundingly. In Brazil's Federal District they shouted: "We want Getulio...
...Getulio Vargas was about to go back on his announced stand ("I am not a candidate") and enter the Dec. 2 presidential election, he was telling no one. In 1930, lacking votes, he had launched his "candidacy" with the guns of his Rio Grande do Sul gaúchos. Now, he could probably corner an easy majority in any election, but the fire power was on the other side-that of presidential candidates General Eurico Caspar Dutra and Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. As long as Vargas was not a candidate, Dutra and Gomes would attack each other. But if Vargas...
...guess for the best view from any TIME office anywhere you'd have to go to Rio de Janeiro: in their window-gazing moments our correspondentsthere can look across Rio Harbor to Sugar Loaf Mountain. Drawback: to get into the office at night, you'd have to go through a neighboring apartment building, rise in a rickety service elevator, grope your way down some very dark corridors...
...other Latin American capitals, officials talked of reopening the Argentine question at the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro next October. In Washington, it was rumored that Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes would withdraw Ambassador Braden from Buenos Aires as a slap at the Argentine militarists, make him Undersecretary of State. From Washington, too, came a report that the U.S. has already ordered its first economic sanction against Argentina: in the future, Argentine ships may not use the Panama Canal. Reason: their two vessels a month overtax the Canal...
...over in New Orleans, Patiño jammed himself into a ten-room suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. In a grey suit, wearing a grey fedora and grey gloves, he visited the French Quarter. Although rumored to be ill, he strode boldly up the steep gangplank to the S.S. Rio Jachal. Asked a reporter: "How does it feel to be so rich...