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...swore simply to "protect and insure protection of the Constitution." Outgoing President Miguel Alemán turned over the green, white and red sash of office. Ruiz Cortines thereupon became the 48th President of Mexico. His inauguration address was low-voiced and prosaic, his only gesture a finger pointed straight in the air. "We will open a new era in the history of Mexico," he said...
Married. Beatriz Alemán Velasco, 18, only daughter of Mexico's President Miguel Alemán; and Carlos Giron Peltier, 28, Mexico City attorney; in Mexico City...
...story told of Alemán in Havana: on the afternoon of Oct. 10, 1948, he and some henchmen drove four Ministery of Education trucks into the Treasury building. All climbed out carrying suitcases. "What are you going to do, rob the Treasury?" joshed a guard. "Quién sabe?" replied baby-faced Joseé Alemán. Forthwith, his men scooped pesos, francs, escudos, lire, rubles, pounds sterling and about $19 million in U.S. currency into the suitcases...
...trucks made straight for the airfield, where a chartered DC-3 stood waiting. Alemán and three henchmen took the U.S. money aboard, leaving the rest to be changed later at Cuban banks. In Miami, he carried the currency to the Du Pont Building headquarters of his $70 million Florida real-estate empire where, an employee has said, "bundles of $1,000 bills were tossed around like wrapped packages of pennies." Later a reporter asked Alemán, "How did you get all that money out of the Treasury?" "It was easy," said Alemán. "In suitcases...
...occur in Latin America. It is about as democratic as a one-party country can get, though probably a long way from the point where one party can peaceably yield power to another at the polls. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, the official government candidate, appears set to succeed President Miguel Alemán in the July elections...