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Next day Ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles issued a short and momentous declaration. His intentions and acts had been misunderstood, he said; and upon pondering the situation he was determined not to explain but to withdraw perpetually from any political activity whatsoever...
Fannie Anitua, portly Mexican contralto, sang sonorously but not too smoothly at her first Manhattan concert last week. Mexican colors draped a box. Mexican officials attended, especially urged by President Plutarco Elias Calles. Mexican songs won loudest approval...
Married. Alicia Calles, 18, daughter of Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico; and Jorge Almada, 22, scion of sugar planters in the State of Sinaloa; in Mexico City...
...Earthquake! Earthquake!" "Mexico's Idol of Flesh and Blood" was boldly denounced and defied before the Mexican Congress last week by fiery spellbinder and factional leader Senor Antonio Soto y Gama. Though he dared not name "Mexico's Idol," the denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional leaders...
...Congress, after receiving the President's great and inspiring address with cheers, heard from Speaker of the House Colonel Ricardo Topete who is also leader of the Majority or Obregonista Party, a crisp declaration that the Party pledges itself to follow the advice and program laid down by Plutarco Elias Calles...