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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Model Efficiency. To settle labor disputes, López Mateos expanded the corps of government arbitrators from one to 50, set up teams of investigators to look into management's books and labor's demands. By the time a dispute reached the mediation stage, he and his arbitrators were ready, willing and prolabor. Once, after a long wrangle with a group of representatives of management, López Mateos tapped his finger on the table for attention. "Gentlemen," he said. "Perhaps you did not notice the sign over the door. It says Secretary of Labor. I am here...
...Labor Secretary, López Mateos lived quietly in a two-story, eight-room house on the outskirts of the capital's fancy suburb-on-a-lava-field, Pedregal. The house, made of glass and lava stone, is furnished with nude marble statuettes, alabaster floor lamps, overstuffed furniture in shades of purple and rose. The López Mateos' only child, Evita, 16, studied at Torrington Park, an English school for middle-class girls, in Arundel, West Sussex, learned flawless English (her father, fluent in Spanish and French, can read English but does not speak...
...López Mateos likes to rise at 6 and start the day with a cup of ink-black coffee and the newspapers, then shave with a Remington shaver. He dresses in double-breasted suits of conservative cut and dark color, wears monogrammed ties...
Candidate of Stability. López Mateos' record of efficiency in office made him a strong contender for the presidency in 1958. In choosing him, Ruiz Cortines followed the tradition that lets each President pick the government party's candidate, provided that he is not objectionable to any ex-President. A whoop-it-up campaign this year introduced López Mateos to the country, and as P.R.I.'s candidate he was easily elected over a brash and helpless opponent...
Rational Nationalism. López Mateos' main problem in keeping the Mexican boom going is that of any nation with mixed-capital enterprise. Which comes first-enterprise or the welfare state? An example is Pemex, Mexico's government oil company. Subsidized Pemex proudly proclaims itself "in the service of the nation," fulfills the proclamation by keeping prices of its products artificially low and supporting a welter of government social services. As a result, it makes little profit to plow back into development and into the establishment of a much-needed petrochemical industry...