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...into the rugged Huasteca hills of the central Mexican State of San Luis Potosí one day last week thundered Federal cavalry forces of President Lázaro Cárdenas. At the town of Rio Verde they found belligerent bands of agrarian soldiers, members of the private army of San Luis Potosí's General Saturnine Cedillo. Soon 22 agrarians lay dead, 15 wounded and 80 more were being rounded up as prisoners. But defiantly, 75 miles away, a lone Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cedillo Squeeze | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...shouldered, multichinned General Cedillo, onetime Mexican bandit who rode with famed Pancho Villa, has been Strong-man in San Luis Potosí for some 20 years. His private agrarian army, which he maintains on his extensive Potosí landholdings, helped boost Señor Cárdenas into the Presidency in 1934 and Señor Cedillo became Minister of Agriculture. The General, however, opposed the land expropriation Cárdenas program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cedillo Squeeze | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Luis Potosi, by a manifesto written in the manner of articles of confederation, seceded from the central government of Mexico on May 15, according to information reaching this Mexican border city today, called an extraordinary session after President Lazaro Cardenas sent government troops into the state to disarm agrarian followers of General Saturnino Cedillo. The legislature reported Cedillo commander-in-chief of the army and exhorted other states to join it in forming a provisional government for Mexico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

...Labor estimated U. S. factory employment at 60.4% of the 1923-25 norm. By March 1937 this index was up to 101%. Last week Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced that in March 1938 the figure had fallen to 81.7%. The Roosevelt Depression index showed an increase in non-agrarian unemployed of 50,000 since February, 2,450,000 since March a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Depression Note | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...WATSON: AGRARIAN REBEL-C. Vann Woodward-Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Demagogue's Decline | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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