Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life, as he puts it, painting "the Brazilian people being born, living and dying, in their rituals and feasts, at their work and play." Portinari's work has been in the pages of TIME'S ART section on several occasions, and he has also painted Brazilian Presidents Getulio Vargas and Juscelino Kubitschek, but this is his first TIME cover. Delighted at the assignment to paint his President, he recalled that he once painted a cousin of Quadros', and told her: "You have all the beauty in the family. There wasn't a centavo's worth...
Skyscrapers Going Up. Governor Magalhaes has run Bahia before, as one of the tough lieutenants of the late Getulio Vargas after Vargas took dictatorial control of Brazil in the 1930 revolution. Now the 55-year-old former revolutionary likes to explain that he puts his faith in his rosary rather than in the two pistols he used to pack...
...mantle that Marshal Lott aspires to is that of Getulio Vargas, the demagogic dictator-President who shot himself in 1954, leaving a note blaming his suicide on the pressure of "international financial groups." Last week, three days after leaving the War Ministry, Lott greeted a noisy convention to accept the nomination of Vargas' old Brazilian Labor Party (P.T.B.). "I am a nationalist," he said. "Nationalism is related to patriotism the way charity is to faith...
Died. Oswaldo Euclydes de Souza Aranha, 65, Brazilian rancher and statesman who gained enough experience from revolutionary clashes of the 1920s to captain the forces that installed Strongman Getulio Vargas as Brazil's President, went on to be Vargas' Ambassador to Washington (1934-38) and Foreign Minister 1938-44), established close relations with the U.S. (though in later years he became disillusioned by U.S. hard-money policies), persuaded other Latin American countries to sever diplomatic relations with the Axis, brought Brazil into the war on the side of the U.S. over the reluctance of his chief and even...