Word: camacho
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...Grillon, Mexico City's ultra-posh nightclub, 300 poets and writers of every political stripe gathered to meet Manuel Avila Camacho over absinthe cocktails, lobster a la Newburg and a succulent melee of chicken, turkey and duck washed down with rare wines. Mexico's querulous intellectuals were being reconciled; the bile of the inkpot was being washed away in the blood of the vine. At the same time they were making the acquaintance, firsthand, of the President who, succeeding to the far-Left regime of Lazaro Cardenas, had led Mexico back to the middle of the road...
...President observed, on a radio broadcast with Philippine President Manuel Quezon and Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho, the seventh anniversary of the Philippine Commonwealth. Said Manuel Quezon: "The story of American-Filipino cooperation is something that every citizen of the United States ought to know and take pride...
...moves gave national leaders an opportunity to muzzle Vichy collaborationists working with Axis agents and the Spanish Folange. At the same time such leaders as Mexico's Manuel Avila Camacho and Brazil's Getulio Vargas emphasized that breaking with Vichy was no severance of the cultural and sentimental ties between the Americas and pre-Vichy France...
...Agriculture under President de la Huerta in 1920, he fought the revolutionists, became a revolutionist himself under the Obregon regime, fled to the U.S. in 1924, two years later was convicted of plotting a revolution against President Calles, last year was made national railways chief by President Avila Camacho...
Publisher Allen had worked hard for his decorations. More of a Western Hemisphere propagandist than a newspaperman, he has been friends with Mexican Presidents-left, right or center-from Calles to Avila Camacho. Now 46, he has been scurrying back and forth across the Rio Grande for 26 years. He understands Mexicans and they understand...