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Last week Dr. Vargas smoothly and speedily arranged the detail of being elected President of Brazil constitutionally. All but 73 of the 248 Deputies of the Constituent Assembly gave their well-drilled votes to Dr. Vargas who comes from the livestock State of Rio Grande do Sul. As he expected, he got no votes from the Deputies of the rebellious coffee State of São Paulo, who voted for their own coffee candidate, Borges de Medeiros, and withdrew. Three days later Dr. Vargas rushed through his inauguration in five minutes. Only members of the diplomatic corps, Brazilian officials...
...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 do Sul...
...over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk in Rio!"-and they had. Rio de Janeiro went almost mad last week. From 10 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock at night-when Rio Grande...
...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 do Sul...
...many U. S. newspaper stories and headlines last week, was not featured by the resignation of venerable, white-bearded President Washington Luis. What happened was this: at 1 p. m. Federal General Tasso Fragoso and Federal General Jaoa de Deus Menna Barreto, both natives of Rio Grande do Sul, approached the presidential palace at the head of a body of officers, announced that they and virtually the whole body of federal officers in the capital had decided to take over the government as a military junta, "to prevent further bloodshed...