Word: lazardo
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Unexcitable Mexicans read the Seyde report, tossed it aside as propaganda in favor of selling Lower California to the U. S. Others pointed to a significant fact. Abelardo Rodriguez is still President of Mexico and General Lazardo Cardenas will probably be President next, but Mexico's Boss is square-jawed Plutarco Elias Calles. Last week General Calles was at Ensenada, Lower California...
...Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan. He left Michoacan's Governorship to help Boss Calles suppress the 1929 Escobar revolt. He took charge of the Government's troops in the State of Sonora, made a name as an efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity...
...Calles, Mexico's square-chinned onetime President, still its strong man and political boss. By promulgating last week a new constitutional amendment forbidding re-election of Presidents and Governors, Congress as it adjourned put President Abelardo Rodriguez out of the picture. Far forward in the picture came General Lazardo Cardenas, Minister of War and onetime President of the National Revolutionary Party. Last week Boss Calles set out on a Presidential train lent him by President Rodriguez to rest in a hacienda at Ensenada, also lent him "by President Rodriguez. The man he asked to go halfway with...
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