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...Plutarco Elias Calles' son, Rodolfo, Governor of Sonora, looked on complacently as the Anti-Chinese Society, backed by local authority, gave orders for the expulsion of all Chinese from his province by Sept. 5. The adjoining states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua issued similar edicts. Chinese grocers had no time to dispose of their property but fled in terror. The Mexican wholesale chain-store, Juan Lung-tain & Co. and Fong qui Co. lost over $1,000,000 each. Long lines of fugitives formed at the border...
...been President of Mexico for six years, but heavy-jawed Plutarco Elias Calles is still The Jefe (Boss), the strongest man in Mexico. Last week Boss Calles rode high in his saddle. In an effort to end the country's financial difficulties he had himself mada President of the Bank of Mexico, became what Hermann Schmitz is in Germany: the country's "money tsar...
...Other noteworthy 1931 births: to onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico (son, premature); Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (daughter); William Henry Vanderbilt (twins, forecast by X-ray); Emperor Hirohito of Japan (daughter); Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (son, winning him a large wager...
...Plutarco Munoz announced that the Honduran rebels were backed by Nicaragua's Augusto Sandino, and "Communists," these from Havana...
TIME, Jan. 26, p. 48, caption Milestones, under "Born," states "to Plutarco Calles and his Senora a son. . . . Senor Calles married the Senorita last August...