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...rift widened, Cedillo, who had risen from a bandit leader in the days of Pancho Villa to absolute boss of San Luis Potosi State, owner of a huge estate and palatial Las Palomas, stubbornly opposed the agrarian socialism of Cardenas. Landowner Cedillo favored small, privately-owned individual farms, objected to the communal ejidos set up by Cardenas...
...tiny Scotch farmer: the flyweight (112 Ib.) championship of the world; by defeating Benjamin ("Sma11") Montana of Manila, U. S. flyweight champion, in 15 rounds; at London's Wembley Club. Smallest recognized class in prize fighting, established in 1910, flyweights have had only one other recognized world champion, Pancho Villa, who died in 1925. ¶ The Yale swimming team, coached by Bob Kiphuth, who last winter started the practice of observing his squad from the bottom of the pool (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936 ): its 154th consecutive intercollegiate dual meet; 60-to-15 against Pennsylvania, in its debut...
...champagne and caviar at some of the best Boston deb parties. He went to New York, fell under the wing of Lincoln Steffens, became interested in the plight of labor, organized a gigantic labor pageant, was jailed for radical activities. Went to Mexico as war correspondent, made friends with Pancho Villa, saw the smoking ruins of the homes of Colorado laborers, went to Europe to cover the news of the War there. He warned against America's entrance, got himself known as a radical for it, was indicted on scores of counts in America after he went to Russia...
Most Mexican Governments do not try too hard to wipe out these guerrillas. Some of them, like Mexico's onetime Provisional President Victoriano Huerta, the late "Pancho" Villa and San Luis Potosi State's present Boss Saturnino Cedillo, eventually become genuine leaders, generals and political powers. Cedillo's standing army of 7,000 is let strictly alone by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas' regular army of 60,000. In time of civil war the bandits are cajoled by both sides. But last week somebody went too far when 13 passengers of a bus in Jalisco...
...baldish, hard-driving man of 44, Colonel Gorrell was graduated from West Point and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went to chase Pancho Villa in Mexico as adjutant of the ist Aero Squadron. In the War he fought on all five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned...