Word: obregon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boss" Calles' Revenge. The "Political Boss" of Mexico is former President Plutarco Elias Calles, co-founder of the Grand Revolutionary Party with the late, great, assassinated President Alvaro Obregon. Last week he had revenge on District Attorney John A. Vails of Laredo, Tex., who had wished to arrest him on a murder charge as his special train passed through that city (TIME, Dec. 23), and who had denounced Calles to U. S, Secretary of State Henry L Stimson as "the greatest exponent of Bolshevism in the Western Hemisphere."* Back in Mexico after a pleasure trip to Europe, General Calles...
...week, in which 19 Mexicans were killed, 23 wounded, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio, government-supported candidate, was elected by a reputed majority of 700,000 to serve as President for the remaining four years, nine months and 23 days of the six-year term of assassinated president-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
Commissioned by the Obregon socialist-labor government to decorate buildings in a way peons could comprehend, he painted many frescoes devoted to a panorama of Mexican life. One of the charges against him is "desecration of public buildings" by use of "figures which, while not lacking in artistic perfection, nevertheless prove a shock to the conservative tastes of certain classes...
...result of the ending of Mexico's religious troubles 80 nuns were ordered released from the penal islands of Tres Marias (The Three Marys). But Madre Maria Concepcion Acebedo de la Llata, "intellectual author" of the murder of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TiME, Sept. 3, et seq.) remained behind...
Remembering bloodthirsty stories of France's Devil Island and Italy's Lampedusa, meticulous Robert A. Maier, Mexican correspondent of Berlin's Lokalan-zeiger anticipated the first anniversary of General Obregon's death by going to visit Mother Concepcion, to see for himself what a Mexican penal island is like...