Word: camachos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rdenas' successor, Manuel Avila Camacho, got Mexico's industrialization into full swing during World War II. To fight the war, the U.S. needed everything that Mexico produced-cotton, metals, ores. The railroads were antiquated and creaky, but at least they were submarine-proof. U.S. dollars tumbled in, exports rumbled out. Many rich ex-landowners built factories to produce the goods Mexico could no longer import...
...expected of every Mexican president since 1911, when illiterate Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata cried "Land and Liberty!" In the first 18 years of the program six Presidents handed over 17½ million acres to landless peasants. Land Reformer Lazaro Cárdenas (1934-40) parceled out 45 million acres; Avila Camacho (1940-46). 13 million acres; Miguel Alemán (1946-52). 10 million. In all, 93 million acres, nearly 20% of Mexico's total area, were handed over to 2,000,000 landless peons, who organized themselves into ejidos (agricultural cooperatives). But Ruiz Cortines, whose term expires in December...
...partisan slate of ten, including its four incumbents Edward A. Crane, Joseph A. deGuglielmo, Marcus Morton, and Hyman Pill. The CCA has also endorsed Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, who has just completed a successful term on the School Committee, as well as Edward G. Bellis, Martin T. Camacho, Bradlee F. Clarke, Arthur R. Hall, and Witold J. Pladziewicz. Each of these candidates is committed to CCA's reform platform and each deserves election...
Died. General Manuel Avila Camacho, 58, President of Mexico (1940-46); of a heart attack; at his ranch near Mexico City. A brave but unflamboyant fighter in the flamboyant Mexican revolution, Avila Camacho climbed the ranks to Minister of National Defense under President (1934-40) Lázaro Cárdenas, who then helped Avila Camacho get elected. Wartime President Avila Camacho junked Cárdenas' leftism, lined his country up on the Allied side, relaxed the government's historic anticlericalism by his famed statement, "I am a believer...
...success of The Mouse was instant and immense. The League of Nations endorsed him. Madame Tussaud put him in her famous wax museum. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devoted a separate article to the little fellow. He was the Nizam of Hyderabad's favorite movie star. Jan Christian Smuts, Avila Camacho, Mackenzie King declared in his favor. Franklin D. Roosevelt never missed a Mickey cartoon. Mussolini adored him; Hitler hated him. The Russians called him a proletarian symbol; however, the line changed in time, and Mickey is now a "warmonger...