Word: ortiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engineer Pascual Ortiz Rubio has had a terrible term. His troubles began two hours after his inauguration when a would-be assassin bloodied his face (TIME, Feb. 17, 1930). He finally had to admit, "A situation of political crisis has existed from the beginning of my administration, making the work of my Government weak and insignificant." Last week after denying for several days in succession that he would resign, Mexico's harassed Great Engineer resigned...
...will leave immediately for Hot Springs, Arkansas," said Citizen Ortiz Rubio. "There I will undergo treatment for an illness of a. delicate nature." Cut in his secretary: "Acute stomach trouble...
Hurrying to say goodbye to Mexico's Great Engineer last week, dynamic U. S. Ambassador Clark rushed into the railway station just ten minutes after Citizen Ortiz Rubio's special train had left for Hot Springs...
...passed a sweeping expropriation law. The Governor of Veracruz must not sign that bill-but he had. Well then, he must not publish it in the Veracruz Official Gazette, thereby making it law. But the Gazette's press was already clanking and groaning last week when President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico finally decided to send an urgent, peremptory wire to Governor Adalberto Tejeda of the State of Veracruz...
Guillermo, 21, and Fernando, 20, sons of President Pascual Ortiz Rubio...