Word: correio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just after taking off from Florianópolis, plane 2023, a Brazilian air force C-47 of the Correio Aereo Nacional, radioed back that it had run into heavy overcast, was going on instruments. Aboard were 13 servicemen, nine civilians including four women and two children, a crew of six. Plane 2023 was on a routine flight to Porto Alegre and then to Uruguaiana in the neighboring state of Rio Grande...
...military commanders. Did that act presage an authoritarian regime? Most observers thought not. Brazil faced a dangerous situation created by its Communists in the first months of its new constitutional freedom, and felt it necessary to use stern measures to meet the threat. But Rio's sober Correio da Manha warned: ". . . Now more than ever, democrats must be vigilant in the face of the intentions and motives of the reactionaries, fascists, integralistas and remnants of [Vargas'] New State...
Salad for Brazilians. Lodged at the luxurious Copacabana Hotel, Rockefeller was immediately surrounded by Brazil's rulers, the closes productores, but insisted that he wanted to talk with labor leaders too. The press gave him a lusty welcome. Said Correio da Manhá: "The American continent cannot survive while one part is strong and prosperous and the other poor and weak. Nelson Rockefeller was one of the first to realize this truth." In a front-page editorial entitled simply "Nelson," Diario da Noite said: "He returns to encourage the development of our land resources in the generous and disinterested...
Such banzai tactics have set Brazilians on edge and stiffened the nation's previously tolerant temper against the Japanese. As police rounded up 27 leading terrorists in Sâo Paulo State, President Eurico Caspar Dutra last week ordered the deportation of 76 others. Said Rio's Correio da Manhâ: "We should not try to change their mentality-only their addresses." Correio's suggested new address: c/o Douglas MacArthur, Tokyo...
...Chief of the Federal Police, was fired. His job was handed to Coriolano de Goes. As Police Chief of São Paulo, De Goes had machine-gunned a crowd of São Paulo students who plumped for representative government last November. Three were killed, 20 wounded. When Correio da Manhã, Rio de Janeiro daily, sneaked some criticism of the Goes appointment into its editorial columns, it was promptly slapped by the Government with a whopping fine...