Word: carranza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco ("Pancho") Villa and Emiliano Zapata. But U.S. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson cooperated actively against Madero, supported Victoriano Huerta as a better friend of U.S. busi ness interests. When Madero was killed, Zapata and Pancho Villa joined with Venustiano Carranza in a new revolt. In Washington Woodrow Wilson realized Huerta could not maintain stability and switched U.S. support to Carranza, saying. "I intend to teach the South American republics to elect good men." A U.S. fleet invaded Veracruz in 1914; Carranza won. but repudiated the U.S. intervention. Nevertheless, two years later...
...After Carranza, Mexico began electing its Presidents, in 1924 chose Plutarco Elías Calles. Calles quickly turned into a dictator, suppressed the Roman Catholic Church ruthlessly. He established a dynasty of puppets that ran until 1934, when Lázaro Cárdenas was elected...
Died. Adolfo de la Huerta, 74, onetime revolutionary Mexican political leader, Provisional President of Mexico for seven months in 1920, between the assassination of President Venustiano Carranza and the election of General Alvaro Obregón; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City. An original member of the revolutionary movement which overthrew General Porfirio Diaz in 1911, Huerta at first supported Carranza as leader of the revolution, later shifted his support to Obregón, but broke with him when both became presidential candidates in 1923. After an attempted revolt by his followers was blocked by U.S. intervention...
...McCormick of the Detroit Free Press [TIME, Dec. 14] ... The article reminded me of a somewhat similar incident: When I acted as Mexican consul in Kansas City, Mo. during President Venustiano Carranza's time [1917-1920], it was my duty to talk with every Mexican in the state penitentiary and secure pardons for in nocent ones who did not have interpreters at their trials. I found one man whom the warden had no record of, but who had been in prison (working in coal mines) for over five years. Investigation proved that he merely accompanied a convicted friend from...
...husband had died four months ago. Afterwards Felicitas, pregnant with her eighth child, went to Dean Jeronimo Carranza to ask for her husband's job. "It is against tradition," said the dean. When Felicitas appealed, the cardinal himself upheld the dean...