Word: suls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stakes are trade and cultural supremacy. The U. S. might already have lost the war had it not been for a Brazilian campaign squabble in 1930. That fight ended in a revolutionary coup d'état by the two powerful leaders of the State of Rio Grande do Sul: dressy little Getulio Vargas and his backer and right-hand man, handsome, dashing Oswaldo Aranha. Vargas as President, Aranha as Ambassador to the U. S. and later as Foreign Minister, have been Latin America's most consistently friendly apostles of the U. S. and its works...
...garden and chipped the palace walls." For three-and-a-half anxious hours President Vargas and his defenders held out. Finally War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra, a bullet through his ear, arrived, leading a detachment .of the regular army and attacked the Integralistas from the rear. Rio Grande do Sul Interventor Colonel Oswaldo Cordeiro de Faria, who had been busy battling attackers at his home, appeared still clad in his pajamas at the head of a company of police, civilians and soldiers. They bottled up the Green Shirts with a flanking movement. Thirty Integralistas were captured, eight lay dead...
...General José Flores da Cunha, one of the original backers of the Vargas 1930 revolt which gave him the Presidential foothold, deposed recently as Governor of the rich state of Rio Grande do Sul in a clash over Vargas-usurped powers, exiled himself in Uruguay...
...still retained this week its popular Governor Benedicto Valladares. By decrees last week President Vargas completed his work of kicking out the governors of the other 19 States, replacing each with a federal interventor. Ex-Governor José Antonio Flores da Cunha of the State of Rio Grande do Sul was ordered tried on charges of having ordered $1,000,000 worth of munitions from Germany, recently, apparently had hoped to use them to right what he considers States' wrongs...
...year when Strong Man Vargas, constitutionally unable to succeed himself, announced he would hold an election January 3, nominated as his Presidential candidate squint-eyed José Americo de Almeida (TIME, June 14). But big Brazil reacted unexpectedly to this news. Commotion broke out in the Rio Grande do Sul bailiwick of swashbuckling 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...