Word: herrera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experience has taught most inhabitants of Mexico to be calm in the presence of bombs. Therefore when Chief of Police Edmondo Herrera of the rebel garrisoned city of Juarez, saw a large red bomb lying in the gutter, one evening last week, he stopped his car and inspected it professionally. It was a time bomb, containing about 24 Ibs. of dynamite and set to explode...
...newspapers cabled to President Machado a resumé of Octavio Seigle's charges, which included assassinations with sawed-off shotguns and racketeering in lotteries conducted by the President himself. An answer was received from Ricardo Herrera, the President's secretary: "Honorable President Machado grants no importance to these matters which tend to create unjustified alarm while absolute peace and faith in its government and President exist in all the nation. . . As to the absolute untruthfulness of this information, the President would prefer that you apply for an opinion to the American embassy, or to any other member...
Therefore, the Calles womenfolk were in a delicate position, last week, on the eve of Senorita Natalia's wedding to Senor Carlos Herrera, a minor government official. Would big, burly Papa Calles insist that his daughter should have only a civil marriage, demand that she live out of wedlock in the eyes of Roman Catholics...
Married. Natalia Calles, daughter of Mexican President Plutarco Calles; to one Carlos Herrera; by a civil ceremony in Mexico City (see p. 16). Married. James Orr Denby, nephew of onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, and lately appointed Second Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Peking;* to Phyllis Cochran, in Philadelphia. He in turn was to be best man for his best man, brother Charles, who will marry Rosamond Reed, daughter of Senator David A. Reed...
Died. General José Maria Orellana, President of Guatemala, 54, brave and completely successful revolutionary. Two months after his overthrow of the Herrera Administration (1922) he was elected to serve as President until...