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...integration of philosophy and play is attempted by setting up one person as the personification of an Idea. Alex Minotis, playing Domingo Alvero, is a South American dictator who exists on the belief that the robust man, the forceful man, can carry out his idea through totalitarian force. There are two other ideas involved in the play: first, that Alvero's is definitely wrong, that progress should be achieved by another process, and secondly, the present American ideal of democracy...
Beneath a cloudless sky in the open-air National Stadium on the outskirts of Mexico City, the Executive Power of the United Mexican States passed from General Alvero Obregon to General Plutarco Elias Calles, peacefully elected by the Labor-Agrarian vote...
...Alvero Obregon, President of Mexico: " I wrote a letter to Wilbur P. Thirkield, M. E. Bishop of Mexico, Central America, North Andes. Said I: 'I believe frankly that your prestige as a prophet is not being compromised too much when you state that our tendency is toward prohibition, and that at an early date Mexico will enter into that state...
President Alvero Obregon of Mexico: "In Manhattan, a young man who gave his name as Lamberto Obregon and said, he was my nephew was haled into court as result of conducting an all night ukulele party. Occupants of the apartment house in which the party took place complained to the police because the young man and his companions (who included artists' models, dancers and students) conducted their melodious roisterings without cessation until 10 A. M.!" Jack Johnson, once heavyweight champion of the world: "For a year I have owed Max Mallin of Atlantic City $12.50 for housing...