Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most of the world at war, Brazil has been suffering from inflation. Few weeks ago Dictator President Getulio Vargas decreed increases in nearly all wages. So that further price increases would not cancel wage hikes, Economic Coordinator João Alberto Lins de Barros fixed ceilings on all goods and transportation charges (as of Nov. 10). But, suspecting that ceilings alone would not do the trick, he took many other measures...
Brazilians have a joke they like to tell on their popular Dictator-President Getulio Vargas. It concerns Sao Pedro Church, still standing in the middle of Rio de Janeiro's newly constructed, three-mile Getulio Vargas Avenue...
...will freeze the church foundations," they say, "and move it on a track of ice. If that works, we will freeze old Pão de Açucar and move it from the harbor entrance.* Then, if that succeeds, we will freeze Getulio and move him out of the way for a democracy...
...seized parts of Maine, Vermont, North Dakota, California and Texas and sent Federal officers to take control from the states' Governors, that would be roughly equivalent to what happened in Brazil last week. "In the interests of national defense" (and possibly for other reasons), Brazil's President Getulio Vargas seized direct control of some 200,000 sq. mi. along the country's borders...
...Janeiro newspaper O Globo next day headlined: "BRAZIL'S IMMEDIATE AND DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR!" Last week O Globo asserted that Brazil actually would send an expeditionary force and that War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra had offered his services to President Getulio Vargas as commander of the force...