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Terrible but controlled was the anger of President Plutarco Elias Calles at the death of his dearest friend and closest political associate, President Elect Alvaro Obregon...
President Calles-What motive had you to deprive General Obregon of his life...
...Bombilla. No sooner was President Elect Obregon assassinated than Chief of Police Roberto Cruz of Mexico City was relieved of that office on general principles and replaced by the doughty General Antonio Rios Zertuche. "We must keep calm!" he exclaimed repeatedly to reporters, "We must keep calm...
...dominant Mexican regime is that of President Plutarco Elias Calles and General Alvaro Obregon. They are friends, agrarians, Nationalists, anti-Roman Catholics. They have caused the. Constitution to be amended so that a former President (General Obregon, 1920-24) can be re-elected (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). They have caused to be shot as revolutionaries the only other presidential candidates, General Arnulfo Gomez (he of the Kaiser-like mustachios) and General Francisco Serrano (TIME, Nov. 21 et ante}. Therefore, General Alvaro Obregon, stern, one-armed warrior, rich rancher, ruthless patriot, was unanimously elected President of Mexico last week?there being...
...similar "unanimous election" was recently held in Portugal, where General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona is the people's choice whether they like him or not. But millions of Mexicans do like Obregon, who will resume office...