Word: senhor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a coup d'état hoisted dumpy Getulio Vargas to Brazil's presidency in 1930, no one had a longer and stronger finger in the proceedings than Senhor Aranha. Since then in Brazil he has been called "The Strong Man." The grateful Vargas made him first Minister of Interior and Justice, later Minister of Finance. A fervent admirer of President Roosevelt, Senhor Aranha promulgated an "Economic Readjustment Act," abolished the gold milreis and repudiated the gold clauses in foreign utility contracts...
Lately Rio de Janeiro has buzzed with talk of a rift between President Vargas and his right-hand man. When the President made an appointment against his wishes, Senhor Aranha resigned from his treasury post, was persuaded to reconsider. Probably his standing at home will depend on what he does for huge Brazil's huge coffee output in the trade treaty negotiations pending in Washington. It was Strong Man Aranha who guided the Departamento Nacional do Café, whose wholesale destruction of coffee has brought Brazil something of a boom...
Berthold Klinger, a onetime German general, is supposed to be the military brains of the revolting Paulistas. Federal troops, who had recaptured about one-tenth of the revolting state last week, scored a spectacular but indecisive coup by capturing Senhor Borges de Medeiros, a leading rebel and once, for 20 years, president of Rio Grande...
Reporters to whom Senhor Augusto Amaral, President of the Brazilian revolutionary committee in New York, handed this message, asked him to define in a sentence what the civil war had been all about. "Generally speaking," he replied, "the revolution was the result of political favoritism and domination of the country by the coffee interests in the state of Sao Paulo," bitterest rival of Rio Grande...
Livestock is the defeated presidential candidate (Senhor Getulio Vargas), President of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, popular in other livestock states of Minas Geraes and Parahyba. It was naturally these three states that rallied in revolution last week around defeated Candidate Vargas. He has charged for months that agents of the "Coffee Oligarchs" assassinated the vice-presidential candidate who was his running mate. He says that he would now be President-elect instead of Dr. Prestes had not the "Coffee Government" of President Washington Luis perpetrated gross ballot-box frauds...