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Significance. To those observers who believe that President Calles stands firmly behind his old friend, onetime President Alvaro Obregon, his speech to the Mexican legislators was not without considerable election import...
...Roman Catholic insurgent leaders in Mexico, the first opportunity for an orderly change of government will be the Mexican presidential election of 1928. The present reactionary Mexican group headed by President Calles will, of course, put Senor Calles' old and strong friend onetime (1920-24) President Alvaro Obregon into the race, but who is the chief pro-Catholic candidate...
Anti-Re-electionist Party, thus centering his attack avowedly upon onetime President Obregon and calling attention to the fact that Obregon has been president before-with the inference that he should not be reelected...
...halt in such a way that the salon car in which rode President Plutarco Elias Calles came to rest exactly opposite the funeral car in which the body of his late wife had been brought from Los Angeles, guarded by the President's trusted friend, onetime President Alvaro Obregon (TIME, June 13). The President and one-armed Veteran Fighter Obregon embraced solemnly, then boarded the funeral car, sped toward Mexico City...
Meanwhile the staffs of General Obregon and President Calles discussed with animation in an adjoining coach the details of an attempt upon the President's life, early last fortnight. A crazed woman, Maria Luisa Jauregui, had fired six shots at him, all of which went wild...