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Death of a General. Two years before that, Aléman had opened a scrubby little law office in Mexico City, and death had come to his father. The old General had broken with Strongman Obregon and turned guerrilla. For two years he held out in the jungle, until betrayed. Then, surrounded by government troops, he fought with his handful of men until ammunition ran out. With the last bullet he killed himself. In Mexico City. Miguel put his father's picture above his desk. It has been there ever since...
...little wooden platform to wheel himself around, bought a shoeshine box, and went to the patio of the National Palace to earn his living. He remained silent and bitter as he bent his head over the shoes of ministers, generals, Supreme Court justices. But one day President Alvaro Obregon slapped him on the back, called him Chaparro (Shorty) and invited him to his office to shine his shoes. Genaro came out with shining eyes-he was the President's bootblack...
Thereafter life was like new. Every day Obregon told him a new joke. He took him along when they went to fight down revolutions, and Genaro thanked God he was so short when bullets flew through the presidential train. On his last day in office, Obregon discovered he had got all this service free-Genaro was not on the palace payroll. He flipped Genaro a gold coin, promised: "When I come back I'll see that you get a home of your own." But he never came back. On the eve of his return to office he was assassinated...
Mexico's left-wing moderns, who rode to fame in the turbulent revolutionary days of Mexico's Obregon Regime (1920-24), jumped at the chance to participate as painters, for the second time in their lives, in a political renaissance...
...Russell Harding, Jr., Paul Hart, Howard Thomas Healy, John Leslie Hoffman, Colin Alexander Houston, Willard Peele Hunnewell, Marshall Sheldon Katze, Paul Dudley Lamson, Jr., Burton Ralph Lewkowitz, Caleb Loring, Jr., Gerald Callan McCarthy, Robert Edwin McNair, David Martin, William McLeod Mayger, Robert Evan Meyer, Berkeley Davis More, Maurice Tirso Obregon...