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...Grande do Sul and cattle have been on top ever since, even though the Paulistas boycotted the election which President Vargas got around to holding in 1934. What Rio Grandenses have been wondering lately is whether this scramble has upped their State or merely shrewd Getulio Vargas. No sooner did the State's No. 2 politico, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, cast an anxious eye toward the Presidency than he was shipped off to Washington as Ambassador. General Flores da Cunha thereupon encouraged a Paulista, Armando Salles de Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus qualify...
...steer singlehanded, who helped boost his friend into the Presidential Palace in 1930, Strong Man Vargas knew he had better act quickly. Back to Porto Alegre flashed a Presidential order relieving Governor Flores da Cunha of his responsibilities as executor of the "state of war" in Rio Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores da Cunha might try with his 30,000 militiamen...
...larger than the United Kingdom in population, presidential politics are the private affair of three kingpin States: Sao Paulo (coffee & cotton), rich, populous Minas Geraes, whose plateaus sparkle with manganese and diamonds, and most of all, in recent years, of cattle-raising, tobacco-growing Rio Grande do Sul (see map). What made big Francisco Flores da Cunha pop so explosively in Rio Grande last week was his shrewd suspicion that Getulio Vargas is contemplating too bold a gambit in this intimate game of chess...
Coffee 6 Cattle. It was supposedly for the honor of Rio Grande do Sul that in 1930 General Flores da Cunha's Gauchos rode tumultuously into Rio de Janeiro, hitched their horses to the obelisk on bosky Avenida Rio Branco, bottled old President Washington Luis up in jail and helped Getulio Vargas become President of Brazil. Washington Luis and President-elect Julio Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world...
...when far-flung railroads and communications will break the political stranglehold of Sao Paulo, Minas Geraes and Rio Grande do Sul and make the United States of Brazil as hard to manage as the United States of America is still remote, leaving Brazil's politicos free to wrestle with more immediate problems. Most immediate problem, whether General Flores da Cunha really could start a revolution, Getulio Vargas seemed to have for the moment well in hand. The next, whether he should succeed himself or put in a proxy president to warm his chair for him next year, Brazil...