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Mexico's generals, spawned by the Madero Revolution of 1911, which sent longtime dictator Porfirio Díaz scurrying to Paris, had multiplied with each succeeding revolt. Now the Mexican Army has so many generals that no one is able to count them accurately. Said a cynical Mexican official: "It is easier to count the soldiers...
Miraculous Mirandas. Mexican-born (1897, 1898), U.S.-naturalized (1930) Alfred and Ignacio Miranda have had quite a career. When their father's New York City export business went broke (he backed the wrong general in Mexico's Madero revolution of 1910), they left school to learn the export business themselves. By 1921 they knew enough to form their own outfit, Miranda Bros. Inc., prospered by selling things below the Rio Grande. First it was automobiles. Then they became minor-league merchants of death, unloading leftover U.S. war supplies in Latin America and in the Balkans. The leftovers...
...Mexico a new and highly prized possession. When Ezequiel Padilla returned home from the Sorbonne in 1914, Mexico was still seething from the revolution which overthrew the 30-year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz-a revolution which was temporarily balked of its gains by the assassination of Francisco Madero...
...loyal friendship and cooperation with their cause, which is also ours, and the cause of civilization, art and culture." Observed New York Timesman Harold Callender, from Mexico City: ". . . The nearest approach to national unity that the country has experienced since the beginning of the revolution in Francisco I. Madero's time...
...with the Church, to commute her term. As her fellow prisoners waved tearful farewells and the Mexican press broke into congratulatory headlines, Seiiora Castro Balda walked out through the prison gates. A vindicated martyr, at 49 more bloomingly plump than ever, she drove with her husband to the Villa Madero, placed a grateful bouquet at the foot of the Virgin of Guadalupe...