Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Miguel Aléman Sr., a grocer in the steaming Vera Cruz village of Sayula, took up arms against Dictator Porfirio Diaz, the wind that was to sweep Mexico was hardly a breeze. The next year the Revolution burst forth and churned the country in bitter, bloody civil war. But the Sayula grocer always managed to come out on the right side. He became a general. After the manner of Mexican generals, he also became prosperous. The Aléman family moved to Mexico City...
...like a gentle-man." Plump, greying Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 48, whose first, second and third marriages lasted, respectively", seven, three and six years, was now separated, after something less than six months, from beauteous Maria Feliza Pablos, 29-year-old grandniece of Mexico's late President Porfirio Diaz...
...They have jumped on the bandwagon, talked loudly about morality in government, have urged more popular participation in civic affairs. Presumably they have also egged on at least some of the public uprisings. In Oaxaca last week the crowd uncovered when orators spoke the name of Pornrio Diaz, president-dictator (with a four-year break) from 1877 to 1911, and to many Mexicans a symbol of reaction and exploitation...
Blood & Beans. In Mexico food is more of a problem than it was 35 years ago in the time of Dictator Porfirio Diaz. Since then, farm production has risen 23%, population 60%. The bloody revolution begun by mild little Francisco Madero in 1910 cracked the feudal system and released three-quarters of a million peasants in mud-floor serfdom from the grip of a few hundred landowning families. But the revolutionaries themselves lived on and despoiled the country, which never had enough farmland (only 12% potentially arable...
Married. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., 48, silver-spoon socialite turned tinsel journalist, roaming New York Post columnist ("Vagabonding with Vanderbilt"), son of high society's dowager queen; and Maria Feliza Pablos, 29, grandniece of Mexico's onetime Dictator-President Porfirio Diaz; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Reno...