Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he was ready in Mexico for a mysterious "strategy junta." But the Almazan camp in San Antonio was dismally inactive. In Mexico City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police. Scattered rebellions in northern Mexico were so insignificant that President Lazaro Cárdenas could tour through the troubled areas all week without danger...
...widest breach on the heretofore solid front of Almazanismo was opened by none other than President-elect Manuel Avila Camacho. Though he was elected principally through the efforts of Cárdenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution, General Camacho's principles are far to the right of the Party's. Having sensed a swing to the right in Mexican politics, having observed the temper of some of the Rightists, Avila Camacho last week thought the time ripe to enunciate his principles. He announced that he was a good Catholic (the Church has been disestablished since 1859), that...
Finally, declared the President-elect, he would extend adequate guarantees to both Mexican and foreign investors. This just about completed the platform on which General Almazán campaigned. Within 24 hours General Emilio Madero (brother of onetime President Francisco Madero, who ousted Dictator Porfirio Díaz), president of the Almazanista PRUN, announced that if Avila Camacho carried out his promises, he himself would give support to the new President...
Last week lowans anxiously wondered how much help and encouragement President-elect Hancher would give to the University's arts program. Mr. Hancher would only say: "It is my personal opinion that creative effort has a proper place in a balanced fine arts program." Old Carl Seashore croaked: "A very fortunate appointment...
...Graduate School of Business Administration has no course requirements at all, but Dean Wallace B. Donham advises that students "should elect some courses in economics and should be able to express themselves clearly and concisely." All the graduate schools stress the ability to write good English...