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Word: tenorio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil's Congress, the investigators found that one of Goulart's Labor Party Deputies had made a fortune by adding 1,295 people to his personal payroll in return for a slice of their paychecks. A fellow congressman, one Tenorio Cavalcanti, 58, required almost no investigation: he was already well known as a fulltime gangster (13 killings to his credit) and the sin czar who-fully protected by his congressional immunity -built Duque de Caxias, on Rio's northern outskirts, into a wide-open vice mecca famed for its brothels, gambling dens, brawling street fights and general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Part of What Was Wrong | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

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