Word: bienvenido
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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With pomp and circumstance, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, President-Elect of Mexico, returned to his home last week. A crowd of generals and a military band awaited him on the station platform, airplanes swooped overhead. Over the door of his villa ran the legend: BIENVENIDO ("Welcome"), formed of red carnations and asparagus fronds. Perched perilously on the garden wall were a number of orators from the Federal District Commission, loudly announcing that the next Mexican Govern-ment is destined to become potent in world affairs. Three hundred prominent Mexican ladies arrived in automobiles to give the Mexican embrace to the First...