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Twelve years ago Madre Conchita was arrested, charged with exerting an occult influence over the assassin who shot down Catholic-hounding President-elect General Don Alvaro Obregon. She was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in the grim penal colony on the Tres Marias Islands. With gentle, biblical good spirits she went to work as nurse, teacher and confidante. Her fame spread throughout her country...
...years ago she was transferred to the Federal Prison in Mexico City. Belonging to an order of nuns whose vows are not perpetual, she was presently released, married another prisoner who had been sentenced for a previous attempt on Obregon. A priest, Father Jose Jimenez, also serving a term, for complicity in the Obregon murder, performed the ceremony. Fortnight ago, the pressure of popular opinion and the hard work of her previously released husband induced new President General Manuel Avila Camacho, who wants to be friends with the Church, to commute her term. As her fellow prisoners waved tearful farewells...
Suave, thick-set Emilio Fortes Gil (pronounced heel), who was Provisional President after the assassination of Alvaro Obregon in 1928 and who helped Cárdenas into power only to be squeezed out by machinations of Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano and the Government's extreme left wing...
Cuba. Swart Inquisitor Pecora brought a number of Chase's vice presidents to the stand and, more interesting, produced their candid correspondence with one another, procured from the Chase's letter files. One letter told that Jose ("Wood Louse") Obregon, son-in-law of President Machado hired by Chase's Havana branch (at $19,000 a year), had turned out to be absolutely useless for any purpose except entertaining clients; that Machado had used up $9,000,000 of a $12,000,000 pension trust fund. Other letters declared that $18,000,000 had been spent unnecessarily...
...commission was paid by Cuba to Senor Obregon not as an individual but as the Chase's Havana manager. After deducting expenses, including legal fees of $58,055.07 for Cuban lawyers (Antonio de Bustamente, Hernandez Cartaya, Garcia Montes) the balance of the commission, some $375,000, was distributed among the original underwriters of the loan: Chase National Bank, Chase Securities Corp., Blair & Co. Inc., Equitable Trust Co., Continental Bank of Chicago...