Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...code, no legal political parties, no idea when the promised Presidential elections would be held. But they did have a new candidate. War Minister Eurico Caspar Dutra's gold-braided general's hat was pitched into the ring. As the Government's entry, Dutra replaced President Getulio Vargas, who a fortnight ago decided that he was "not a candidate...
President Getulio Vargas last week told Brazilians the one thing they most wanted to know: whether he would be a candidate in the forthcoming elections-Brazil's first free balloting in over ten years. Said Vargas: "I ask nothing for myself. I am not a candidate." He added that he would not quit the Presidency "either through violence or aggression" but would turn over his office "to my legally chosen successor." He did not say that he would refuse to be drafted...
Indignation swept restive Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, the powerful National Students' Union met angrily. Cried Byronic young Newsman Carlos Lacerda: "I accuse Getulio Vargas and Agamenon Magalhaes [new Minister of Justice] of the assassination of the student Democrito. Under the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas, youth has only one right, which is to die for its country. This it is doing in Italy. Youth comes to the streets today to demand another right: a Government which represents the people of Brazil. . . . And if this right is denied it, it still has, like the student of Recife, the right...
This was not the first time that João Alberto had come to the President's aid. In the 1930 revolution he had been one of the "young lieutenants" who put Getulio Vargas in power. Another "young lieutenant," Eduardo Gomes, was now acclaimed as leader of the anti-Government forces. As a friend of both, João Alberto could easily act as a conciliator...
Brazilian newspapermen had waited seven years for a collective interview with their Dictator-President, Dr. Getulio Dornelles Vargas. Last week, in Brazil's summer capital, over 100 reporters and editors jampacked a small, ornate salon, waiting patiently to question Dr. Vargas about the "Additional Act" - his brand-new constitutional amendment...