Word: gil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Squelches Briton. Chief event in Mexico last week was the settlement by bullnecked, square-jawed President Emilio Fortes Gil of a strike which has paralyzed for a fortnight the British-owned Mexicano Railway, vital link between Mexico City and the major Mexican port of Vera Cruz. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution approving the strike as fully in accord with the ideals and aspirations of the Grand Revolutionary Party. Police prevented British Manager J. D. W. Holmes of the Mexicano Railway from hiring strike breakers. Finally President Fortes Gil intervened and settled the strike by decreeing that...
Sidar the Reckless. Mexico City bands blared out all the patriotic welcomes they knew. Mexico's burly little President Emilio Fortes Gil beamed on his grandstand in Valbuena Field. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, at his left, smiled gravely. The populace screamed: "Viva . . . viva Sidar . . . viva Sidar el loco" [The crazy, reckless]. All this last week as Col. Pablo Sidar, 30, Mexico's "first" flyer since the death of Capt. Emilio Carranza (TIME, July 23, 1928), returned to Mexico City from a flight around South and Central America and Cuba. President Portes Gil pinned Mexico's first medal "For Aeronautic Merit...
...last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be corrupted or suborned, nor can they hope to win high Government posts by selling themselves vilely." In a word Dona Sofia asked the President to decree 100% feminine custody of the presidential vote. He promised to ponder her suggestion, gallantly bowed her out; soon the Ministry of Interior announced: "Federal troops will...
Candidates. In the presidential race the Grand Revolutionary Party of President Emilio Portes Gil is running scarfaced, jut-lipped Pascual Ortiz Rubio, one-time Ambassador to Brazil, a party regular picked by Mexico's most potent political boss, General Plutarco Elias Calles who put down the revolution of last spring (TIME, March 4 to June 3) and is now being overhauled by doctors at Paris...
...lady petitioners, is pugnaciously campaigning on a platform of votes for women, no second terms for Mexican presidents, reduction of the Mexican Army, more conservative Government policies (notably curtailment of the practice of expropriating large estates and turning them over to the peasantry). In thunderous denunciation of President Portes Gil and Candidate Rubio last week, he shouted that as his chances of election grew their agents were plotting to spring a fake revolution in his name, which the Government would use as a pretext for calling off the election. Paradoxically he also threatened: "If the count goes against...