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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...
...rang with rumors last week of an impending revolution in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Details were not forthcoming. The Brazilian Embassy in Washington, the Brazilian foreign minister, President Washington Luis united in an almost hysterical desire to quash reports. Said the President's secretary, Senhor Mendes Goncalves: "His Excellency authorizes me to state that the situation of Brazil is at present as it has been in recent times, of the most perfect economical, political and financial order...
...dinner conversation through an interpreter Mr. Hoover may well have touched on the reason why the State Banquet was stag. Mrs. Hoover, still suffering from her fall, had been obliged to remain recuperating by the Rapidan (TIME, June 16). For his part Senhor Prestes may have mentioned the illness of his wife. She left Rio with him, had to be put ashore sick at Pernambuco, recovered, sailed for Europe last week, and will very shortly meet the President-elect in London or Paris, returning thence with him to become Brazil's First Lady...
...matter of fact Senhor Prestes frequently saw both U. S. and Brazilian coffee men last week, but this was only natural. Before his election he was President (Governor) of the State of São Paulo (famed "Stepping Stone to the Brazilian Presidency") where more than half the world's coffee is grown and where almost every man of means is more or less "in coffee." When he landed at Manhattan nearly every paper flaunted a quarter page "WELCOME" advertisement signed by "The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Largest Importers of Brazilian Coffee...
...Gurgél do Amaral gave President-elect Prestes his final send-off from Washington with a banquet of 300 guests brilliantly staged in the Pan-American Union's imposing "Hall of the Americas." Although he had every legal right to serve wine the Ambassador refrained "at the request of Senhor Prestes" and "as a special courtesy to President Hoover...