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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...
...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...
...Sympathy. In Pasadena, Calif. Albert Einstein said he thought kidnapping showed a lack of "social sanity." Law-abiding Londoners, aghast at a crime directed against "the American approximation of the Prince of Wales," could not understand why a Prince of Wales would leave his much-publicized infant unguarded. President Ortiz Rubio ordered the Mexican Army to watch the border for the kidnappers. The Changchow Merchants' Guild of Peiping sent sympathy. Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York ordered his flock to pray for the infant's safe return. School children and 500,000 Companions of the Forest of America also prayed...
...Bishop Efraim Salinas y Velasco Suffragan (Episcopal), Bishop Juan N. Pascoe (Methodist), or the Rev. Charles R. McKean (Union, nondenominational ). Their churches have never had so many clergymen in Mexico as one per 50,000, while Catholics have always had vastly more. Tilting forward in his chair, President Ortiz Rubio signed the bill, then and there made...