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Died. General Enrique Estrada, 53, revolutionist; in Mexico City. Minister of Agriculture under President de la Huerta in 1920, he fought the revolutionists, became a revolutionist himself under the Obregon regime, fled to the U.S. in 1924, two years later was convicted of plotting a revolution against President Calles, last year was made national railways chief by President Avila Camacho...
...platform strode President General Manuel Avila Camacho, who called for full collaboration with the United Nations. Standing beside him last week for Mexico and all the world to see were six living past Presidents: Adolfo de la Huerta (1920); General Plutarco Elías Calles (1924-28); Emilio Fortes Gil (1928-30); Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1930-32); General Abelardo Rodriguez (1932-34); General Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40), who exiled Calles in 1936. Five of them posed for a historic picture (see cut). The crowd in the Plaza saw the neatest demonstration of unity in Mexico...
...April day in 1914, while Daniels was Secretary, the Navy shelled the Mexican port of Veracruz, ousting the revolutionary Government of General Victoriano Huerta. By 1916 the U.S. was at war with Mexico. Daniels later denied that he had ordered the attack. But Mexicans did not forget that he was technically in command of the Fleet...
Taxco's second break had to wait for the 19th Century when, under Porfirio Diaz, Mexico's industrialists reaped another silver harvest from Taxco. The Huerta, Villa and other revolutions put an end to the Porfiristas and Taxco took the count again until Bill Spratling blew...
...remembers the red light which President Woodrow Wilson had flashed on April 21, 1914 from the fighting top of the U. S. S. Arkansas. This signal started the bombardment of Veracruz by ships of U. S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and within a few months unacceptable President Huerta was forced to resign...