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...Then I obtained a job in a railway office as an accountant. . . . The President of Mexico, Huerta, was afraid to trust Mexicans to guard him, so he employed Cubans, and I met one in the railway office. I told him I was an American Department of Justice agent and was after a murderer from Ohio, who I was sure was in the Mexican army. Then he helped me some by showing me several garrisons...
...went to [U. S. Charge d'Affaires] O'Shaughnessy and together we bluffed our way into Chapultepec Castle. We went to the second floor and there was old Huerta drunk in bed. I became so intimate that I sat on the edge of the bed and emerged with an order to inspect all the garrisons of the capital. After looking over the 23 garrisons . . . I decided that I had better head for Vera Cruz and the fleet, because, if they learned I was an American Marine officer I would have been shot...
...Angeles Enrico Caruso Jr., 26, loud, barrel-chested son of the late great tenor, is taking singing lessons. His instructor: Adolfo de la Huerta, onetime Provisional President of Mexico. Said Junior Caruso: "I never believed I could reflect credit on [my father's] memory. But I feel now that I can. . . . Dad told me: 'The cemeteries are full of tenors who tried to sing Othello.' I want to sing that one best of all. . . . That would make Dad proud...
...articles under embargo, were restored to the embargo list. 4) The U.S. sold to Mexico some 10,000 Enfield rifles and 10,000,000 rounds of ammunition from U. S. reserve stores. This was done on precedent?5,000 rifles were sold to Mexico at the time of the Huerta revolution in 1924, and payment was promptly made...
...Victoriano Huerta," Professor Haring Sever...