Word: gil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before he had enthusiastically approved a message of Emilio Portes Gil, asking the Governors of all Mexican States to close all gambling houses immediately. Unreceptive were the Governors of Sonora. Lower California, where elaborate casinos attract thousands of U. S. tourists...
...Mexicano ("Mexicans! to the cry of war . ."). Detectives and police stalked up and down the rows of seats looking for possible assassins. Entered portentously the President-Elect, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, large-toothed and smiling, a green, white and red sash across his chest, accompanied by his predecessor, Emilio Fortes Gil...
...Mexico are the United States of America, and the ceremony was over. A dapper young man in a neat black suit by the name of Daniel Flores left the stadium in disgust. Cameramen tripped over Congressmen in their efforts to snap President Ortiz Rubio publicly kissing ex-President Fortes Gil. Telegraphers in the press section clicked wordy comment on the stability of Mexico's new government, wired that at last a Mexican President had been inaugurated without bloodshed or attempted assassination...
Throughout the night dapper Daniel Flores was grilled by a Chief of Police, by a Minister of War and by onetime President Fortes Gil, besides routine detectives. In the end the prisoner said...
...cabinet sworn in by President Ortiz Rubio last week contained only two important changes. Ex-Provisional President Fortes Gil retired to his old post as Secretary of the Interior, prime Cabinet post, and handsome General Juan Andreu Almazan was rewarded for his slaughter of 1,000 rebels at the Battle of La Reforma (TIME, April 15) with the post of Secretary of Communications and Public Works...