Word: aleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week chose Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 59, as President for the next six years. The official count will not be announced until July 20, but government estimates based on incomplete returns indicated that Ruiz Cortines had carried more than 80% of the vote. Minister of the Interior in President Miguel Aleman's government for the past four years, Ruiz Cortines was the choice of the official Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), which has governed the country for 22 years...
...Dwyer said only: "One Falcon Dam is worth 1,000 speeches"-and was quoted all over Mexico. As a broad-minded politician, he gets on well with Mexico's broad-minded politicians. When O'Dwyer was being grilled by the Kefauver committee last spring, President Aleman sent his personal plane to bring O'Dwyer back to Mexico...
Last week, dedicating the $26 million waterworks, President Miguel Aleman spun a wheel that sent Lerma water surging down 40 miles of mountain ditches and tunnels and into the capital's ducts. For the first time in modern history, Mexico City (pop. 2,334,000) had a 24-hour water supply (except in fashionable Chapultepec Heights, where installation of special pumps had not yet been completed...
General Henriquez, 53, is a strong, silent Old Revolutionary from the Rio Grande border who made $50 million building roads on government contracts. Last month, without waiting to see whom President Aleman would name as candidate of the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), the general launched his campaign. He plastered the capital? with posters proclaiming, "Henriquez Guzmán-Candidate of the People," and set out to canvass the country...
...since the days of the revolution. The merchants of Tepic, the capital of Nayarit, took ads in all Mexico City newspapers to proclaim: "On the day of your visit we have agreed to shut down all transport, restaurants, hotels and everything else. Placing gratitude to the regime of Miguel Aleman above our private interest, we repudiate agitation...