Word: pedagogic
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Plutarco Calles started life as a school teacher and was for 17 years a persuasive pedagog. In the exercise of his profession, he was imbued with some of that idealism that lit the soul of the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson. But in Mexico of that day he was not understood. From the position of Mayor of Fronteras, the proud Mexican aristocrats forced him. Not a public office was open to him. This drove him to the "soap-box"; and his so-called Radical speeches inflamed the workers to red-hot enthusiasm for him, his enemies to bitter hatred...