Word: almazan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First ministers to resign were the four Generals in the Cabinet: Joaquin Amaro (Minister of War) ; Lazaro Cardenas (Interior) ; Saturnino Cedillo (Agriculture); Juan Andreu Almazan (Communications). Able Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca and the other civilians resigned some hours later, but rumors persisted that they would soon go back to their posts. It seemed evident that yet another military revolution had been brewing, a brew chilled by canny General Calles before it could boil over. Over the cafe tables it was insisted that the father of this military miscarriage was General Joaquin Amaro, a cyclopean full-blooded Tarascan Indian...
...cabinet sworn in by President Ortiz Rubio last week contained only two important changes. Ex-Provisional President Fortes Gil retired to his old post as Secretary of the Interior, prime Cabinet post, and handsome General Juan Andreu Almazan was rewarded for his slaughter of 1,000 rebels at the Battle of La Reforma (TIME, April 15) with the post of Secretary of Communications and Public Works...