Word: ortiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salute. Soldiers in black dress uniform snapped to present arms. Three bands simultaneously struck up the Himno Nacional Mexicano ("Mexicans! to the cry of war . ."). Detectives and police stalked up and down the rows of seats looking for possible assassins. Entered portentously the President-Elect, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, large-toothed and smiling, a green, white and red sash across his chest, accompanied by his predecessor, Emilio Fortes...
...swear," said Pascual Ortiz Rubio, his broad palm flat against a copy of Mexico's Constitution, "to protect...
Followed a short speech in which President Ortiz Rubio outlined his policies, explained how dear to the United States of Mexico are the United States of America, and the ceremony was over. A dapper young man in a neat black suit by the name of Daniel Flores left the stadium in disgust. Cameramen tripped over Congressmen in their efforts to snap President Ortiz Rubio publicly kissing ex-President Fortes Gil. Telegraphers in the press section clicked wordy comment on the stability of Mexico's new government, wired that at last a Mexican President had been inaugurated without bloodshed...
Though it failed to kill, Daniel Flores' fusillade wrought damage. One bullet broke the already deeply scarred jaw of President Ortiz Rubio; another carried away part of the right ear and grazed the scalp of his wife, Senñora Ortiz Rubio; another wounded his niece, Señorita Maria Rosh; a fourth grazed Chauffeur Felix Galvan. Flying glass cut the President's secretary, Col. Hernandez Chazaro, and a friend, one Sostenes Garcia. There were two misses...
...Cross Hospital a bullet, flat as a dime, and a bit of splintered jawbone were removed from the mouth of President Ortiz Rubio. The other casualties were bandaged and sent home. Speechless but undaunted, as befits a direct descendant of Tzintzicna, last of the 19 Tarrascan Kings who ruled under the Aztec Emperors of Mexico, President Ortiz Rubio insisted on scrawling a telegram to his two handsome sons Fernando and Guillermo, at school in Gettysburg...