Word: maximino
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...hand of death. He got into congress when the man for whom he was an alternate died. In 1936, he stepped into the governorship of his native Vera Cruz when the governor-elect was assassinated. His chance for the presidency opened last year when death came to Maximino, brother of President Manuel Avila Camacho, and Alemán's chief political enemy...
...week's end, the philosophical Foreign Minister took a dozen other foreign ministers to the Hipódromo de las Américas, Mexico's horse track backed by U.S. expatriate "Sell 'em" Ben Smith and President Manuel Avila Camacho's late brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Result: Host Padilla, Colombia's Foreign Minister Alberto Lleras Camargo, Venezuela's Carraciolo Parra-Perez each lost 50 pesos on a long shot. Nicaragua's Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa won 500 pesos ($103) on two races...
...Died. Maximino Avila Camacho, 52, Mexican Secretary of Communications and strident, notorious elder brother of Mexico's pious President; of a heart attack; in Puebla, Mexico. The death of the aggressively ambitious onetime cowhand, bullfighter and revolutionary left few sincere mourners among his countrymen...
Mexico is on its way to having as many international air routes as the U.S. has railroads. Since stocky, jut-jawed Maximino Avila Camacho (dollarwise brother of President Manuel) became Minister of Communications in 1941, U.S. air lines have been steadily thrusting into Mexico with direct international services, establishing Mexican operating subsidiaries for local routes...
...Minister of Government Miguel Aleman looks upon Maximino and Padilla as possible rivals for the Presidency in 1946. Smooth, quick-witted Miguel Aleman cleaned up the Axis spy ring in Mexico, ran the propaganda campaigns which helped swing public opinion behind Mexico's entrance into the war. He controls the inbred Government bureaucracy, is now mending fences for summer elections...