Word: almaz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flirtation, he knew, had its limits. President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán was still insisting last week that he would take office Dec. 1, still declaring, "I will have the unanimous support of all the people...
...cause of President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán sputtered like a discouraged short circuit last week. Loyal Almazanistas insisted that their leader would arrive in the capital by month's end, that he was ready in Mexico for a mysterious "strategy junta." But the Almazan camp in San Antonio was dismally inactive. In Mexico City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police. Scattered rebellions in northern...
...removing Lombardo, President Cárdenas implemented General Avila Camacho's promise to rid Mexican politics of Communist domination. Avila Camacho had already matched General Almazán's other claims to conservatism by guaranteeing security to both Mexican and foreign investors, announcing himself a good Catholic. He was now in a position to match Almazán's program point for point, could offer the further inducement of accomplishing it without revolution...
Finally, declared the President-elect, he would extend adequate guarantees to both Mexican and foreign investors. This just about completed the platform on which General Almazán campaigned. Within 24 hours General Emilio Madero (brother of onetime President Francisco Madero, who ousted Dictator Porfirio Díaz), president of the Almazanista PRUN, announced that if Avila Camacho carried out his promises, he himself would give support to the new President...
...General Almazán's angle seemed to be that he would keep everything strictly constitutional if he made no move against the Government until Camacho, whom he claims to have been illegally elected, tried to take his seat Dec. 1. But that might be too late for the General's followers. Last week his revolution appeared destined to come no closer to reality in the end than Novelist Calder-Marshall's. Wise, tough little President Cárdenas was not going to be caught napping. He remained at the head of 10,000 crack troops...