Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazilian army rose in a bloodless coup to overthrow Dictator Getulio Vargas. Ever since, the date has been celebrated as a kind of second independence day,* with speeches about democracy and grateful bows to the army for ending 15 years of strong-arm rule. This year, with presidential election tallies showing Getulio Vargas leading almost two to one, Brazilians wondered whether or not the Oct. 29 "Week of Democracy" would be observed. Last week the army, navy and police gave them the answer: since no one had ordered any festivities, there would be no celebration...
...usual, canny Getulio was in no hurry to commit himself. From Rio Grande do Sul, the old man issued his first post-election statement. Said Getulio: "I come to power with a heart clean of hate and resentment ... I bow before a triumph which has been less mine than that of the Brazilian people." Aside from talking vaguely about forming a coalition or perhaps a British-style labor government, that was about all he said...
...Ties. But Getulio Vargas, dictator-President of Brazil from 1930-45, was no unknown quantity. He first came up out of Rio Grande do Sul in the depth of the depression as the rallying point and presidential candidate of all the discontented elements in Brazil. He was always a man of action. Counted out at the polls by the old-guard regime, he marched on Rio with his gauchos and seized the presidency...
That was as far as Getulio Vargas ever went in flirting with the Axis. His dictatorship was always more personal than ideological; the historic ties of U.S. friendship held strong. Vargas swung his country to the Allied side long before it was clear that the Allies would win. He granted the U.S. air bases across Brazil's strategic northeast bulge. Later he dispatched a division to the Italian front, the only South American troops to fight overseas in World...
...back, but for the first time in his long career, as a democratically chosen, constitutional President. Perhaps the supple old opportunist could change enough to fit the new pattern. Brazilians have always said that Getulio could change his socks without taking off his shoes...