Word: aleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political views must not be too far right or he will lose the support of ex-President Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), who expropriated foreign oil holdings and launched ambitious land reforms. They must not be too far left or he will not have the support of ex-President Miguel Aleman (1946-52), who guided Mexican politics back to the middle of the road. Membership in the current Cabinet is almost essential. Three men fit this mold well enough to qualify for the slang adjective of presidenciable...
Coming to the presidency on a wave of national reaction against the free-spending glitter of the Miguel Aleman regime, Ruiz Cortines had recognized the need for a cleanup. He first weeded out corrupt officials, then went after the root causes of corruption: inadequate official pay and bureaucratic inefficiency. After devaluating the currency, he clamped on price controls, still spends several hours a week personally checking them...
...Miguel Aleman...
...only an impression at first sight . . . Has Mr. Ruiz Cortines jailed any of his former Cabinet colleagues of the Aleman era? Has he taken away from them the hundreds of thousands or millions of pesos which they had received illegally and corruptly ? Why has he done nothing of this kind? ... If he only had tried to do it, he would have been dead the very day his purpose became known to all these corrupt people who have, today as yesterday, more power and more influence than the decent people like Mr. Ruiz Cortines...
...slap the Mexican press when you say that it was too close to the game of Aleman and his cronies to chronicle much of it. Just what do you mean? That it was in jeopardy and therefore scared ? Shucks! Like yourself, the Mexican press isn't scared of anything this side of the grave . . . Probably the lack of the chronicles you miss is due simply to the fact that there was nothing of the sort to chronicle . . .Who was the editor who, not with the traditional blue pencil of his kind but with the rewrite man's typewriter...