Word: ortiz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President-Elect of Mexico, Señor Pascual Ortiz Rubio, with his wife, two sons, one daughter, his sister-in-law, her son, and a suite...
Looking pale and slightly shattered after the worst Atlantic storm in 50 years. Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president, most potent of Mexicans, stepped from the Bremen to Brooklyn last week, was welcomed by 50 Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's President-elect. An unexpected damper to the official welcome was the announced intention of one John A. Vails, District Attorney of Laredo, Tex., to arrest Señor Calles for the murder seven years ago of two Mexican officers whose bodies, handcuffed together, were found floating in the Rio Grande...
...anti-re-electionists were speaking figuratively, sarcastically. There was an election last week, in which 19 Mexicans were killed, 23 wounded, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio, government-supported candidate, was elected by a reputed majority of 700,000 to serve as President for the remaining four years, nine months and 23 days of the six-year term of assassinated president-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
...election law provides, apparently in an effort to improve the shooting, that the first nine citizens who succeed in registering at a voting booth are thereby constituted the election board for the day. By noon hundreds of Mexican voting booths were wrecked, most of the others triumphantly occupied by Ortiz Rubistas. In Mexico City an automobileful of machine gunners swept past a mass meeting of disconsolate Vasconcelistas, killed four, wounded eight. In Vera Cruz, Vasconcelistas took their revenge by lynching a man by the name of Lopez...
...Significance, to U. S. observers, of the election lay in the firmly entrenched position of the National Revolutionary Party, the party of ex-President Calles, "provisional" President-elect Ortiz Rubio, suave engineer. Prophets foresaw no major change in Mexican-U. S. official relations for at least four years, nine months, 23 days...