Word: obregon
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...when the Mexican Chamber passed 199 to 7, last week, a bill permitting the re-election of former Mexican presidents, providing that one presidential term elapses between the end of their tenure of office and their reelection. This measure was rushed through by the friends of onetime President Alvaro Obregon. He and President Calles are the twin political idols of the anticlerical faction now in power. Presumably the bill passed by the Chamber last week will be railroaded through the Senate with equal ease. After that a few months of intensive and unscrupulous campaigning should suffice to place Alvaro Obregon...
...President's staunch personal friend, onetime (1920-24) President Obregon, declared to newsgatherers...
Later it was announced that General Obregon will himself command the 30,000 troops which the Government has announced it will send against the Yaquis...
...Yaqui thus molest the so distinguished general in whose veins courses so much Yaqui blood? Friends of General Obregon widely expressed their surprise. Then a despatch reported that the Yaqui have been forcibly prevented by the Calles Government from making their usual pilgrimage to certain of their (Catholic) shrines. Allegedly their attack upon Obregon was intended as a reprisal for the Mexican Government's suppression of the Church (TIME...
...General Obregon, "chickpea king of Mexico" has derived immense wealth from judicious exploitation of his numerous farms and ranches. At one time he virtually controlled the entire garbanzo (chickpea) crop of Western Mexico...