Word: adolfo
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...President, acting through Secretary of State Kellogg, formally notified Nicaragua that the U. S. would support the government of President Adolfo Diaz...
...name of a new President was set down last week in the voluminous annals of Nicaragua, crammed for centuries with an almost unexampled record of Spanish tyrants and Latin American usurpers. The new President, Señor Adolfo Diaz, was elected by the Nicaraguan Congress in joint session, an assembly so accustomed to being bullied by armed factions in Nicaragua that its acts must always be regarded with suspicion. Apparently President Diaz was elected because he is known to be persona grata to the U. S., which intervened to support him when he was previously elected President...
...days previously, Richard H. Cole of St. Louis, the man who obtained U. S. recognition for Presidents Madero and Carranza, and who is now U. S. agent for the President-aspirant, Adolfo de la Huerta who was last year beaten by President Obregon (TIME, July 14, 1924) in the most recent of Mexico's civil wars-this man Cole called upon President Coolidge at Swampscott, failed to find him at home...
After the revolt, Adolfo de la Huerta became Provisional President ' until Señor Obregon was elected to that dignity. Then peace reigned for three years; and the Sonora triplets were indispensable to one another?Calles as Ministro de la GobernaciÓn (Minister of the Interior), de la Huerta as Minister of Finance. In the fourth year of this regime, the 1924 election loomed. Mexicans speculated as to whether Calles or de la Huerta would succeed President Obregon. The latter favored his right-hand man and favorite, General Calles. For a time, de la Huerta also favored him, because, as allegedly...
...found Calles, made him a general in command of the Sonora army. From this moment, the beneficent shade of Señor Obregon hovered about him. Governor of Sonora he became, and then Cabinet Minister. And, when the snappy struggle against President Carranza began, the Sonora triumvirate? Obregon, Calles and Adolfo de la Huerta?was in being...