Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico's closemouthed little President Lazaro Cardenas had almost displaced the man who elected him. Boss Plutarco Calles, in the hearts of the Mexican peons by last month. He had given them some land and some justice, had made a personal tour of the back country, patting babies and cattle, drinking many a glass of cow's milk and goat's milk. But the one thing a Mexican President needs to rule his fermenting country is abounding, virile health. Last week, surrounded by enemies, President Cardenas to his disgust felt sick as a dog. Newshawks were told...
Cardenas is a pure Tarascan Indian, contemptuous of sickness and doctors. Last week he ordered that no bulletins on his condition be issued, but his fellow members of Mexico's ruling National Revolutionary Party were already eagerly discussing a temporary President while Cardenas took a long rest somewhere out of Mexico. Boning up on Malta fever. Cardenas' enemies found that it is properly called undulant fever, and that its germ, the Micrococcus melitensis, can be got from drinking raw milk or even from patting diseased cattle. Chances against Cardenas dying of it were...
...Cardenas again in force. He was sweating with it, his joints swelled, he ached, his temperature was high and he felt weak. He had lost about 33 lb. To suggestions that he take a convalescent trip, he snorted. Last week he arose, drove to the San Jacinto suburb of Mexico City and spent two hours patting more cattle at the National Cattle Exhibition...
...American's pleasure at the start of its newest, greatest airline was somewhat dulled last week by the sudden necessity of abandoning one of its oldest lines-a Mexican subsidiary named Aerovias Centrales. Started in 1929, it served Los Angeles, El Paso and Mexico City where it connected with P. A. A.'s South American system. Using five Lockheed Electra monoplanes, it claimed the fastest airline schedule in the world (175 m.p.h. average), never killed a passenger. In face of a 1932 law that no foreigners could fly Mexican transport planes, Aerovias Centrales persisted in employing only...
...passengers behind untrained men, that it would quit operations at once. To General Mujica went many a pleading letter from the company's 225 Mexican employes, who feared losing their jobs. To President Lazaro Cardenas, too miserable with Malta fever to be interested, went the thanks "of Mexico's Association of Military Pilots...