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Once Smoky tried to telephone Chiang Kaishek; on another occasion he tried to talk to Manuel Avila Camacho, then President of Mexico. Last week Smoky got the urge again, picked up the phone in his Oelwein, Iowa hotel, and said: "Get me the Kremlin in Moscow." Four hours later, on a line which crackled and buzzed, he was put through to Moscow...
...Octavia Vasquez. 5. Avila Camacho...
...companies in 1938, Aléman wired the 27 other Governors, hailing the move as "liberation of the country," and demanding support. They responded by electing him chairman of the President's Advisory Council of Governors. In 1939 he moved to the capital to manage Manuel Avila Camacho's presidential campaign against Juan Almazan. Mexicans recall the ruthless drive with which he carried through the election; to this day many insist that Almazan really won and was counted out by the Aléman organization...
...Avila Camacho made Aléman Secretary of Gobernacidn (Government), the key Cabinet post. But Aléman was not the ranking minister. That was the job of Maximino Avila Camacho, the President's rich, powerful brother, who as Minister of Communications was the big shot and profited to the scandal of all. Maximino hated Aléman, but he did not live long enough to hurt him. One day Maximino dedicated a new health center, went home and died...
...there was any doubt about Avila Camacho's election in 1940, there was none about Aléman's last year. He won on a fair count. Mostly he won because more Mexicans knew him better than they knew his professorial opponent, Padilla. During the campaign he had visited every state, called people in and asked to hear their troubles...