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...swearing in of a President of Mexico no Bible is possible. Last week, as though going to a bull fight, those affable, spur-clinking atheists, President Abelardo Rodriguez and President-elect Lazaro Cardenas (TIME, Dec. 3), drove through a frantically cheering rabble to the National Stadium, packed with 50,000 inauguration addicts...
...shouting "down with this farce of a parade! Give us bread and schools and work!" Meanwhile Government planes bombed the Capital with thousands of anti-Catholic propaganda posters, touting, among other things, the marriage of a famed ex-nun (see p. 62). "The time has come," proclaimed President-elect Lazaro Cardenas who takes office Dec. 7, "to prepare future generations for a new life and outlook...
Elected. General Lazaro Cardenas, 39: to be President of Mexico; in a peaceful one-sided election during which only one man was shot. He succeeds Abelardo Rodriguez in December...
When Mexico's Plutarco Calles and his National Revolutionary Party nominate a man for President, all the world knows that that man will be elected. There was no doubt that closemouthed, mustached General Lazaro Cardenas would be the next President when the Party formally nominated that Calles henchman in December. But in the dusty village of Nicolas Romero in the State of Mexico last week there was one man who refused to accept the inevitable...
...final rubber-stamp of the week, the Convention nominated for President by acclamation a pure-blooded Tarascan Indian,* General Lazaro Cardenas, the fierce, secretive go-getter who hunted Bandit Pancho Villa. General Cardenas' taciturnity is a Mexican byword. Since last spring, when Dictator Calles indicated that he would pick Cardenas (TIME, April 3), the general has been studiously "doing nothing," having resigned as Minister of War to comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal...