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When a coup d'état hoisted dumpy Getulio Vargas to Brazil's presidency in 1930, no one had a longer and stronger finger in the proceedings than Senhor Aranha. Since then in Brazil he has been called "The Strong Man." The grateful Vargas made him first Minister of Interior and Justice, later Minister of Finance. A fervent admirer of President Roosevelt, Senhor Aranha promulgated an "Economic Readjustment Act," abolished the gold milreis and repudiated the gold clauses in foreign utility contracts...
...Janeiro has buzzed with talk of a rift between President Vargas and his right-hand man. When the President made an appointment against his wishes, Senhor Aranha resigned from his treasury post, was persuaded to reconsider. Probably his standing at home will depend on what he does for huge Brazil's huge coffee output in the trade treaty negotiations pending in Washington. It was Strong Man Aranha who guided the Departamento Nacional do Café, whose wholesale destruction of coffee has brought Brazil something of a boom...
...Tugwellian efforts to thwart His bounty. Yet the same God has so far failed to register His displeasure with another program for the willful destruction of natural wealth which, for sheer grandeur in scope and execution, dwarfs anything ever attempted in the U. S. or elsewhere. In three years Brazil's Departamento Nacional do Café has fired, made into fuel briquets or dumped into the deep blue sea 31,500,000 bags of coffee-4,000,000,000 lb., worth at last week's prices of 11½? per lb. some $500,000,000. This amount would...
...Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez of Argentina; Juan Leguia, son of the late president of Peru; Brig. General Juan F. Azcarate Pino, military attaché of the Mexican Embassy at Washington; an unnamed Turkish Minister of Marine; Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia; an unnamed chef de cabinet of Brazil; an assorted handful of Chinese war lords. The inferences of the correspondence was that almost all of these foreign statesmen had accepted bribes as a quid pro quo in U. S. armament sales abroad. As unofficial protests piled up at the State Department, Secretary Hull attempted to pass them...
...announced to the stunned Tony that she was in love with Beaver, wanted a divorce and a lot of alimony-so much, in fact, that Tony would have to sell his beloved ancestral estate. No fool when faced with facts, Tony decided to let her want, went off to Brazil with an incompetent explorer to discover a legendary city. The inevitable happened: the crazy expedition came to grief; Tony's estate went to poor relations; Brenda married one of Tony's obliging friends...