Word: camacho
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...proposed a Constitutional amendment to increase the terms of Supreme Court Justices from six years to life. Under the six-year provision successive administrations have always influenced the Court. When three of his appointees were rejected by the Senate as "reactionaries," Avila Camacho insisted on their approval. Next day they were approved...
Last week President Avila Camacho called a special session of Congress for February to go still further-to enact a series of conservative reforms. Marked for revision were: the General Law of Labor (by outlawing what the President calls "crazy strikes" and increasing the Government's power to intervene in labor disputes); the Law of National Education (by abolishing compulsory Socialist education and giving a share of public education to the Catholic Church); the law implementing Article 27 of the Constitution on nationalization of the subsoil (by modifying the present ban on the possession of oil concessions by foreigners...
...only is Congress behind Avila Camacho, but the press in Mexico loudly sings his praises. Just before he took office, ex-&-exiled President Calles announced from California that he was behind him. Almazanistas have boarded the bandwagon. That wry little labor leader, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, whom Avila Camacho repudiated before his election, has echoed his disapproval of "crazy strikes" and begun trying to negotiate a settlement of a miners' strike in Nueva Rosita, Coahuila...
...last week the opposition to the Avila Camacho counterrevolution had become both vocal and violent. Since the new President's inauguration a steady stream of Nazi agents has filtered into the country. Last week Nazis and Communists were distributing pamphlets denouncing the "counter-revolution backed by Yanqui Imperialism." The Government had to call out police armed with rifles and tear gas to keep an eye on the demonstration in Mexico City...
...black strike flag was hung across the entrance to Mexico City's two tramway terminals, where 500 streetcars idled. The Capital awoke the first morning of this week to find its transportation system crippled. President L. M. Spiers of British-owned Mexican Tramway Co. asked Avila Camacho to declare the strike illegal, accused Nazis and Communists of fomenting it. It seemed probable that Avila Camacho, in the seventh week of his administration, faced a showdown with organized labor...