Word: cano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's II Progresso Italo-Ameri-cano had run a full-page ad last January calling for a committee of 100,000 to get at least a million letters off to Italy posthaste. Points to be made to relatives in the old country: food and relief has been coming from the U.S., not Yugoslavia or other Soviet satellites; Italy's hope for peace depends...
Oaxaca's title-loving Governor Edmundo Sanchez Cano (who usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered...
...greet RendÓn with earnest inquiries about his campaign's progress. The press, which has dubbed him "the picturesque presidential candidate" (in contrast to the Mexican Revolutionary Party's dull favorite, former Interior Minister Miguel Aleman), has gaily promoted his Mexican Rendonian Party (Partido Rendoncista Mexi-cano). Mexico City's weekly picture magazine AS (Ace) ran the campaigning artist on its cover...