Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, more or less, pictures of Getulio Vargas hung on the walls of all public buildings, offices and stores in Brazil. The omnipresent portrait of the stocky little leader was the symbol of his "New State." When his dictatorship fell in 1945, the pictures came down...
...Court, acting in its capacity as the country's Supreme Electoral Tribunal, formally proclaimed Vargas victor in last October's presidential election. The official count: Vargas, 3,820,560; Briga-deiro Eduardo Gomes, 2,288,105; Christiano Machado, 1,653,521. From his ranch in the south, Getulio began a stately progress toward Rio and next week's inaugural ceremonies. When he met Sao Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros to talk over the new cabinet, so many well-wishers surrounded him that he had to sneak off and hold private chats in the kitchen...
Excitement mounted in Rio. Though Getulio was not expected to arrive till early this week, bandwagon-jumping politicos staged one banquet of homage after another. Cardinal Dom Jaime Camara announced a special Mass commemorating Vargas' election, although the church press had backed the Brigadeiro during the campaign. The staid Jockey Club said it would revive its annual "Prix Getulio Vargas," which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. At week's end a new samba was sweeping to the top of the pre-Carnival popularity list...
...Spot. Soon after Getulio Vargas came to power in 1930, Chato quarreled with him and joined the abortive Sao Paulo uprising. Getulio forced him into bankruptcy, then ordered him placed aboard a Japanese freighter in Rio harbor and transported to Far Eastern exile. Though Chato succeeded in talking his way ashore, and Getulio in due course restored his properties, the chastened publisher made it a rule never to have trouble with Vargas again. In last year's election he avoided taking a clear stand for or against Getulio...
...timing of the announcement before year's end. Both he and President Eurico Gaspar Dutra regarded the obtaining of the Point Four spending program as a crowning achievement of their administration, and they wanted to get it on their record before they hand over the government to Getulio Vargas next month...