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...Plutarco Elias Calles, recently exiled to the U. S., was formerly the "Strong Man" of (1 Brazil, 2 Panama, 3 Mexico, 4 Cuba, 5 Venezuela...
...briefcase Dr. Eller, son-in-law of onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico, had letters of approval and promises of co-operation from a score of Latin American officials who attended the Third Pan American Conference of National Directors of Health in Washington last month. Also in an approving mood were Sumner Welles, Assistant U. S. Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, and Dr. Ross Mclntire, President Roosevelt's White House physician whose ear Dr. Eller had held for many an hour. When Dr. Eller ceased speaking President Roosevelt warmed him with a smile, told...
...heavy, slit-eyed man with an unshaven, greenish face got out of a plane one afternoon last week at the San Antonio, Tex. airport. Behind him trailed five swarthy followers only slightly less formidable-looking. The first man was Mexico's onetime President and longtime Boss Plutarco Elías Calles, who had just been forcibly exiled from Mexico by President Lázaro Cárdenas. Sick, sleepless and broken, the 58-year-old exile turned on newshawks an impressively bitter face...
...Plutarco Elías Calles roared into Mexican politics in 1920 as one of the "Sonora triumvirate" of Obregón, de la Huerta & Calles which overthrew and assassinated President Carranza. Calles, a superb executive during his four years (1924-28) as President, built up a potent political machine. After Obregón's assassination in 1928 he could afford to put in a Presidential puppet, Emilio Fortes Gil, and invent the National Revolutionary Party, a tight Fascist organization with a highly Socialistic program of paper promises for the people. Calles and his henchmen unionized Mexican labor, attacked...
...cars which teetered on the broken bridge was a group of politicians including Colonel Eduardo Hernandez Chazaro, candidate for Governor of Veracruz. He had no doubt that his own enemies had done the bombing. Convinced that the "intellectual author" of the deed was onetime Dictator Plutarco Elias Calles, ousted from his country last week (see p. 25), President Lazaro Cardenas ordered an investigation to ferret out the actual perpetrators...