Word: pessoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joao Pessoa, President (Governor) of the State of Parahyba was killed in a Pernambuco candy store fortnight ago by an adherent of José Pereira, rebellious Parahyba State Deputy who has been waging civil war in the interior of Parahyba for five-and-a-half months (TIME, Aug. 11). Joao Pessoa lay in his coffin eleven days and nights and none dared bring him home for fear that the arrival of his coffin would start riots in the chief cities of Parahyba. Joao Pessoa was buried last week, not in Parahyba where he lived, or in Pernambuco where he died...
...State of Parahyba is a mountainous oblong of land, almost three times as big as Belgium, on the eastern point of the bulge of Brazil. The late Joao Pessoa was more than its Governor. He was the defeated National Democrat (Liberal) candidate for Vice President of the United States of Brazil, brother of learned, esteemed Epitacio Da Silva Pessoa, onetime (1919-22) President of Brazil, now World Court judge. He was also distributor of all the political patronage in Parahyba...
...things are different in Brazil. Rebellious José Pereira has potent friends in Rio de Janeiro. Though over 500 rebels and Parahyba state police have been killed since February near Princeza, Federal troops have not been called out, nor has the State President of Pernambuco allowed State President Pessoa to bring his militia through Pernambuco territory to surround Rebel Pereira...
Fortnight ago State President Pessoa went on a vacation trip to Recife, Pernambuco. He received an anonymous warning that he would be killed some time after July 20. In Recife one Joao Dantas, Republican friend of rebellious José Pereira, walked up to Joao Pessoa as he sat in the Gloria Confectionery Shop, shot him dead, then was spirited away by the police...
...police were all inland, fighting Independent José Pereira; 1,000 Federal troops finally were called out to do police duty. In Parahyba gaol 187 convicts banged on the jail doors, begged that they might be released to slit the throats of the murderers of State President Pessoa...