Word: gil
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...diverted to Brownsville and Eagle Pass. Governor Dan Moody appealed to Secretary of State Stimson, then to President Hoover himself. Texas Senators implored the President to do something. It was even suggested that President Hoover hold a long distance telephone conversation with Mexico's President Emilio Portes Gil...
Pressed for details, Editor Buré reminisced: "As far as I can recall, the incident took place in 1904. Clemenceau was then director of L'Aurore, and I was one of his editors. The caustic political sheet Le Gil Bias, which Mortier directed, published one day a very sarcastic attack on Clémenceau in which his character was described as being 'fierce as that of a tiger...
College boys frequently swear off smoking and drinking for indefinite periods, invent elaborate forfeits for backsliding. Generals of Armies, Presidents of Republics are seldom so ingenuous. Not so President of Mexico Emilio Fortes Gil and General Pedro J. Almada, Chief of Military Operations in the State of Puebla...
...banquet tendered President Fortes Gil in Puebla City last August upon the conclusion of the last revolution, the Chief Executive, who has high plans for making Mexico temperate, scanned the liberal wine list, then suggested to General Almada that they both swear off tobacco and liquor, that the first to fumar (smoke) should pay the winner 100 silver pesos ($50), the first to beber (drink) should pay 200 silver pesos ($100). General Almada manfully agreed...