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...General Plutarco Elias Calles, Minister of War and onetime President of Mexico, raced from Mexico City to Manhattan by special train with his second wife, Senora Leonor Llorente Calles, 26, suffering acutely from intercranial pressure induced either by a tumor or meningitis. In Manhattan the party was met by General Calles' son-in-law, Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller...
...General Plutarco Elias Calles, 53, "Strong Man of Mexico," Secretary of War and onetime President, was elected head of Compania Hulera Mexicana, newly organized to make synthetic rubber. In January the company will have a factory ready to produce 400 motor tires and 5,000 rubber heels daily. The formula is the work of one Julio Tellez Giron, 46, research chemist who spent 17 years developing his theory that petroleum in its early stages closely resembles rubber. His process is to take crude petroleum, mix it with ground sugar cane. This compound is refined, fried in the sun, vulcanized with...
Married. Artemisa Elias Calles, 17, daughter of Mexico's onetime President, now Minister of War, Plutarco Elias Calles; and Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller, 37, Manhattan dermatologist; in Mexico City. Among the guests: President Pascual Ortiz Rubio; U. S. Ambassador Joshua Reuben Clark...
Deep-lined Plutarco Elias Calles, ex-President and strongest figure in Mexico, keeps a jealous eye on his country. Fortnight ago he was to all intents & purposes a private citizen. At last week's close he and President Pascual Ortiz Rubio were the entire Cabinet...
...Morgan, which had extensive Mexican holdings, but his helpful fellow-student, President Coolidge sent Ambassador Morrow to a country that diplomatic careerists avoided like a plague. By the time he got back, Ambassador Morrow's daughter Anne was married to the U. S. national hero and Mexico's Plutarco Elias Calles was calling Ambassador Morrow one of his best friends. Then to the London Naval Conference, then to stand for the Senatorial seat left awkwardly vacant when Senator Edge was sent as Ambassador to France. Bucking stiff Democratic opposition, Dwight Morrow refused to make Prohibition a campaign issue but denounced...