Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Getulio Vargas Jr., 24, youngest of the three sons of the President of Brazil; of infantile paralysis; after an illness of ten days; in Sao Paulo...
...miles from Liberia the President turned up aboard a U.S. destroyer anchored in Brazil's winding Po-tengy River at Natal. There he conferred with round, determined little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, an "old friend." After long conversations, sometimes in Franklin Roosevelt's schoolboy French, sometimes through an interpreter, the two Presidents announced that they were determined to keep the Atlantic Ocean "safe for all," that Africa's Dakar must never again become "a blockade or an invasion threat against the two Americas." And once more the President rode in a jeep-with his Brazilian confrere-this...
...Paulo, after a frantic search, went an iron lung. From Buenos Aires, where a Pan American plane made a special stop, to São Paulo went Johnson & Johnson's Vice President Andrew Rohlfing, only man within reach who knew how an iron lung was operated. The reason: Getulio Vargas Jr., youngest son of Brazil's President, had suddenly been taken ill in São Paulo, was in serious condition with infantile paralysis...
Getulinho ("little Getulio") is perhaps the most promising of President Vargas' three sons. Graduate of Brazil's Escola Nacional de Chymica, he spent four years at Johns Hopkins University as a student of chemical engineering. When stricken last week, popular, modest young Getulio was working in São Paulo's Nitro Chymica chemical-manufacturing company. His father and mother rushed to his bedside. Four days after the diagnosis of infantile paralysis President Vargas left for a conference at Natal. From his good friend Franklin D. Roosevelt he could expect deep sympathy and an inspiring example...
...moves gave national leaders an opportunity to muzzle Vichy collaborationists working with Axis agents and the Spanish Folange. At the same time such leaders as Mexico's Manuel Avila Camacho and Brazil's Getulio Vargas emphasized that breaking with Vichy was no severance of the cultural and sentimental ties between the Americas and pre-Vichy France...