Word: ortiz
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...whose "loyalty, disinterest and patriotism" Boss Calles praised, three have not been returned to cabinet rank, including Cardenas' good friend & fellow-Tarascan Joachim Amaro, "Father of the Mexican Army," unofficially suspected of plotting the 1931 untranquillity. When Abelardo Rodriguez was moved up from Minister of War to succeed Ortiz Rubio who had fallen out with Calles, Cardenas moved into the War Ministry...
Since each item is the work of an individual press, variety is the keynote of the whole, and there are several instances of remarkable ingenuity in the adaption of format and typographic technique to the spirit of the text. The rendering of Lawrence Wroth's capable essay on Juan Ortiz, the first wood engraver to practice his are on the American continent, by the Southworth. Press is particularly apt in this respect...
...throat slashed, a bullet in his temple. Tied to his right wrist was a blue tag inscribed: "The ABC will mete out this death to all long-tongued persons." Long-tongued Cepero's crime had been to shout a warning to Chief of Police Major Arsenic Ortiz (who got his present job after being accused with two others of 44 political murders in Santiago) when three young men were attempting to assassinate him. Chief Ortiz chased them up an alley in his own car, shot all three...
...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...