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Within 24 hours after the execution of José de Leon Toral, a dynamite bomb was exploded under the locomotive of the special train of Mexico's provisional president, Sefior Emilio Portes Gil (TIME, Dec. 10). The engine was derailed, one fireman was killed, and two coaches left the track. President Portes Gil descended unhurt from his salon car, walked forward to the locomotive, shrugged his broad shoulders and remarked: "The revolution star is in luck...
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...
...Mexico's great Federation of Labor, the C. R. O. M., there was generated, last week, a menacing crisis. Without prior hint of trouble the Congress of the Crom met and passed two fateful resolutions. The first gave notice to Mexico's new President, Señor Emilio Fortes Gil, that provincial officials are "persecuting" members of the Crom, and asked that these persecutions be stopped. The second resolution requested President Fortes Gil to padlock the Teatro Lirico in Mexico City, where a gross buffoon has been impersonating and holding up to ridicule, night after night, the President...
...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...
...Senor Emilio Fortes Gil is a lawyer and was Governor of Tamaulipas from 1925 until his recent appointment as Minister of Interior. Stocky of figure and stern of face, he teetotals, eschews tobacco...