Word: teixeira
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...hard to find the immediate provocation for the brutal murder. The day before, O Momento had published a story by Reporter Gurgel aimed at Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, governor of the state of Goiaz and the newspaper's prime political enemy. It charged that Pedro Arantes, whom the governor had appointed head of the Electric Energy Commission, was running the state's drastic power rationing to suit himself. The paper printed its attack under the headline HE CAME AND PRODUCED LIGHT. Soon after the story appeared, Arantes met the reporter on the street, slapped him across the face...
...unexpected arrival of the U-530 started a flood of rumors. Brazilian Admiral Jorge Dodsworth Mar tins, boiling mad over the loss of the cruiser Baía (see above), said he believed "that the U-530 could have torpedoed the Baía." Another Brazilian, Admiral Dudal Teixeira, believed that the U-530 came from Japan. An Argentine reporter topped them both: he had seen a Buenos Aires provincial police report to the effect that a strange submarine had surfaced off the long, lonely, lower Argentine coast, had landed a high-ranking officer and a civilian. They might have...
...Manuel Teixeira Gomez, ex-Ambassador to Great Britain, was elected by Parliament as fourth President of Portugal. He succeeds Dr. Antonio Jose de Almeida, whose term of office (four years) expired...