Word: borja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CESAR BORJA...
...BORJA...
...Brazilians say he can take off his socks without removing his shoes. He is a Gaucho from the rolling cattle country of Rio Grande do Sul, southernmost of Brazil's 20 federal States. His father who is still living was a General and Getulio grew up in Sao Borja, where lived his present Foreign Minister, Oswaldo Aranha. To this day Oswaldo Aranha's old mother tells Getulio just what she thinks of everything he does...
Getulio went to a private school, enlisted in the Army when he was 17, went from there to Rio Pardo Military School, quit in 1903, when he was 21, to study law at Porto Alegre. In 1908 he hung out his shingle in Sao Borja, and for the next few years he practiced law between terms in the State, then the Federal, Legislature. In 1926 he became Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of President Washington Luiz Pereira de Souza, as a reward for helping to elect Luiz. One year later he was President (Governor) of the State...