Word: aleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convert every line in the country to standard gauge; 2) eliminate the steep grades and kinky turns that cause most wrecks; 3) gradually modernize rolling stock. The President called on his Finance Minister to find the necessary funds, which will probably be raised through new taxation. "The railways," Aleman said flatly, "will be in perfect state before my administration is over...
...little plots of ejido land. They also incite their fanatical followers to demonstrate against the smalltime grafting political bosses who rule many a village and town. In Leon, Tapachula and Oaxaca such demonstrations led to street fighting and the death of Sinarquistas. When, over the past 18 months, the Aleman administration fired three governors and a raft of local officeholders, the Sinarquistas claimed the credit...
...thousand dusty village squares and in the vast Zócalo before Mexico City's National Palace, crowds danced, skyrockets sizzled. In historic Puebla, where girls pelted his car with flowers as he passed, President Miguel Aleman laid a wreath at the foot of the statue of General Ignacio Zaragoza...
...Cuba's Government-and Venezuela's and Guatemala's-had originally backed the filibuster. Last summer the invaders learned military drill on Cuban Government school grounds at Holguín, in eastern Cuba. Down to last week, Grau's close friend, Education Minister José Aleman, had kept many of them on his departmental payroll. His department put up most of the $1,500,000 expedition costs...
...price of bread. It did not settle the question of where Mexican husbands were going to get more money for the increased gasto that their wives demanded. More & more Mexicans blamed their Government for high prices. Less & less were they inclined to listen calmly to the advice of President Aleman: "Prices will not come down until you work harder and produce more...