Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Renamed in honor of the late Mahatma Gandhi: a public square in Rio de Janeiro. The old name had honored Getulio Vargas, once president and boss, now the opposition...
Working the Mine. At Allied urging, Dictator Getulio Vargas nationalized both the mountain and the rickety, narrow-gauge railway that leads to the port of Vitoria, 375 twisting, malarial miles away. When the Rio Doce Valley Co. was formed to administer the entire property the government and private investors subscribed to its $15 million capitalization and the U.S. Export-Import Bank chipped in $19 million more...
Perhaps the Red leaders would eventually go underground again; they had prospered there during the repressive days of Dictator Getulio Vargas. Or they might even run for office on the Laborista ticket of Strange Bedfellow Vargas, once their desperate enemy, now their desperate ally...
...Future. What next for Aranha? Certainly not rest, or sleep (he thinks more than five hours a night is barbarous). Politics? Probably. From 1930, when he plotted Revolutionist Getulio Vargas into power, until 1944, when he nimbly jumped from the dictatorial train before it crashed, Aranha has turned his brain and famous smile to practically every important task that Brazilian public life offers. Only the presidency escaped him. For that, in 1951, his feverish admirers now thump...
Life Begins at 59. The Army's ouster of Getulio Vargas two years ago was Mangabeira's invitation to pick up, at 59, the political career cut short 15 years before. Since then, he has worked fast-guiding U.D.N., helping to write Brazil's new constitution, getting himself elected governor of Bahia...