Word: cedillo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was oratorical bombast it was not so received. For several days denials and reiterations flew back and forth. The Attorney General began an investigation. Last week, recriminations produced results. Swarthy, heavy-jowled, ox-shaped General Saturnine Cedillo, Minister of Agriculture and last Conservative remaining in the Cárdenas cabinet, resigned...
...months, radicals led by sour-faced General Francisco Mujica, Minister of Communications & Public Works, and Toledano have been hurling charges of "Fascist" against 240-lb. Cedillo. Backed in his home state of San Luis Potosi by 7,000 men, the last private army in Mexico and apparently in high favor with President Cárdenas, Cedillo felt secure. His agrarian army was largely responsible for booting out party-boss and former President Plutarco Elias Calles in 1934, replacing him with liberal-minded Cardenas. Time & again, the blustering General Cedillo, riled at Leftist indictments, handed in his resignation, but Cardenas refused...
...Luis Potosí for five years. To patient Catholics in States where the Church is relentlessly persecuted, this appointment may well bring hope. San Luis Potosí is one of the few States where priests and nuns walk the streets in canonical garb unmolested. Its local strong man, Saturnine Cedillo maintains a potent private army, favors a moderate attitude toward the Church...
Most Mexican Governments do not try too hard to wipe out these guerrillas. Some of them, like Mexico's onetime Provisional President Victoriano Huerta, the late "Pancho" Villa and San Luis Potosi State's present Boss Saturnino Cedillo, eventually become genuine leaders, generals and political powers. Cedillo's standing army of 7,000 is let strictly alone by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas' regular army of 60,000. In time of civil war the bandits are cajoled by both sides. But last week somebody went too far when 13 passengers of a bus in Jalisco...
First ministers to resign were the four Generals in the Cabinet: Joaquin Amaro (Minister of War) ; Lazaro Cardenas (Interior) ; Saturnino Cedillo (Agriculture); Juan Andreu Almazan (Communications). Able Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca and the other civilians resigned some hours later, but rumors persisted that they would soon go back to their posts. It seemed evident that yet another military revolution had been brewing, a brew chilled by canny General Calles before it could boil over. Over the cafe tables it was insisted that the father of this military miscarriage was General Joaquin Amaro, a cyclopean full-blooded Tarascan Indian...