Word: suls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More frantic than the celebration of Brazil's deliverance from her last Portuguese emperor in 1889 were the wild transports of Rio Grande do Sul's populace last week on what they called Armistice...
Oldest inhabitants of this No. 1 rebel state said that the dethroning of his Imperial Majesty Dom Pedro II was not half so exciting as the ousting last week of His Excellency President Washington Luis. Reason: This was Rio Grande do Sul's own victory. She as a state had started the civil war (TIME, Oct. 13), and her former President Dr. Getulio Vargas (as popular in his state as "Al" Smith in New York) was on his way from the battle line to assume the presidency of Brazil. He, like Mr. Smith, was the defeated candidate...
...Grande do Sul crowds simply had to carry somebody on their shoulders. Their "Al" Smith was 400 mi. north, and before he became President would be 800 mi. away in Rio de Janeiro. But fortunately he had left behind a young man, one Osvaldo Aranha as acting president of the state. To his office in Porto Alegre rushed the joy-mad mob, carried him with roars of triumph to the Grande Hotel, put him on a balcony. Three times the young man tried but failed to speak, so full was his heart...
...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...