Word: salgado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediate search was begun for cadaverous-faced, black-mustached Plinio Salgado, the "Supreme Chief of the Green Shirts" who has been in hiding since Vargas outlawed the movement as a political party (TIME, Nov. 22). At last reports Salgado was still hiding. Arrested as leaders of the Putsch were Belmiro Valdeverde, chief of the "Revolutionary Dissident Wing" of the Party, and Admiral Eduardo Taveres...
...Governor José Flores da Cunha, whom President Vargas had to replace with a Federal military interventor. A temporary lifting of the state of war for campaign purposes soon had Brazil's Leftists noisily at the throat of Brazil's green-shirted Fascist Integralistas, whose leader Plinio Salgado wears a Hitler mustache and advocates in misty Portuguese a "corporative State." Last fortnight more serious trouble appeared. The Departmento Nacional do Café, which has destroyed $638,750,000 worth of Brazil's surplus coffee to keep up the world price, announced that its deficit...