Word: maderos
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...Francisco Madero", Professor Haring, Sever...
...Beals, one-time Principal of the American High School, Mexico City, charged the U.S. with constant graft and aggrandizement in Mexico, ending by claiming that onetime (1909-13) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Henry Lane Wilson received 50,000 pesos a year from Diaz, and demanded a like sum from Madero, "to help support the American Embassy." At this, Mrs. Dawes rose (out of order) from her seat, and in a voice trembling with emotion declared: "I think we have struck the very lowest note of the week listening to charges of bribery and corruption against men not present here...
...Attorney General of Mexico is preparing to file a claim for $10,000,000 damages against the U.S. Government with the General Claims Commission now sitting at Washington, on the ground that the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 1909 to 1913, Mr. Henry Lane Wilson, instigated assassination of President Madero of Mexico...
...Indianapolis home Mr. Wilson said: "I had no more to do with the overthrow of Madero than Woodrow Wilson, and of course he had nothing to do with it. This was purely a manufactured charge made by a newspaper correspondent. In response to that charge I instituted suit against Norman Hapgood (then editor of Harper's Weekly), and among other things obtained a confession of judgment...
...days previously, Richard H. Cole of St. Louis, the man who obtained U. S. recognition for Presidents Madero and Carranza, and who is now U. S. agent for the President-aspirant, Adolfo de la Huerta who was last year beaten by President Obregon (TIME, July 14, 1924) in the most recent of Mexico's civil wars-this man Cole called upon President Coolidge at Swampscott, failed to find him at home...