Word: carranza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salvador, Capt. Nunez; Honduras, Pilot Garay; Guatemala, Commandant Morales Lopez; Cuba, Capt. Delaborde; Peru, Carlos Martinez de Pinillos; Mexico, Emilio Carranza. Best known in the U. S. was Mexico's Carranza, who flew through fogs, storms and engine trouble from Mexico City to Washington. As he was trying to fly back, lightning struck his plane, killed...
...Benny" shook hands with the men, kissed the ladies, jumped into his plane and was off on his 4,600 mi. "goodwill" flight home to Bogota. His talismans were the flashlight and lunch kit that the late Captain Emilio Carranza, Mexican "goodwill" flyer, carried when he was killed flying from Washington to Mexico City...
...Mexican executive's name with General Obregon's murder. It scoffed at Calles' "thirst for justice," declared that his own guilt was obvious to anyone who had followed, step by step, events in Mexico. "The road which led him, together with Obregon, over the corpses of Carranza, Gomez and Serrano, led Calles fatally to pass also over Obregon's dead body ... did his best to hide the key that makes the truth obvious...
...made Carranza President," said Obregon to the late Spanish novelist Vincente Blasco Ibafiez, "I took Carranza in triumph from Vera Cruz to the Presidential chair. Afterwards it was my turn. Isn't that fair...
President Obregon. The Anti-Roman Catholic and extremely nationalist Mexican Constitution of 1917 was adopted under President Carranza, but first achieved international significance under President Obregon. His policy was dual, and shot through with the inconsistency of genius. On the one hand he whooped Mexican nationalism and trod on the toes of U. S. investors by commencing to enforce the Constitution; and on the other hand he sought to maintain cordial relations with the statesmen of Washington...