Word: adolfo
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...General Adolfo de la Huerta: "The minute the Mexican revolution succeeds I, Adolfo de la Huerta, will step down from leadership and will become a plain citizen of Mexico, without title and without office. Then I will announce my candidacy for the office of President of Mexico, pledged on my honor to uphold the Constitution and all constitutional guarantees...
...immediate cause of the storm was the feud between President Obregon and Presidential-candidate General Adolfo de la Huerta, who was accused by Obregon's Finance Minister Pani of dishonesty in office (TIME...
Samuel Gompers,President of the American Federation of Labor, returned to the U. S. fresh from a romp in Mexico, where he had been supporting Radical General Plutarco Calles for the Mexican Presidency, and whence have emanated shrieks of protest from Conservative supporters of General Adolfo de la Huerta...
...Alberto J. Pani, who recently succeeded General Adolfo de la Huerta as Secretary of the Treasury, drew up a series of charges against his predecessor in a paper For the Information of the President. Señor Pani said: "I believe that it is urgent on your part to dictate measures that will relieve us of an immediate financial catastrophe...
...General Adolfo de la Huerta then made a cutting rejoinder to his accusers: "I am not surprised by the declarations of General Alvaro Obregon nor the report of the stupid and unjust Alberto J. Pani. It is well known that they only waited until I was accepted as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, nominated by the Mexican people, to pretend to stain my name. There is more yet. Treacherously and cowardly they have threatened to take my life. What less than that, they start with trying to take away my honor, which I always tried to keep...