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...Plutarco Elias Calles, "Iron Man" and onetime President of Mexico, gave his Santa Barbara hacienda, 20 mi. from Mexico City, to the Mexican Agricultural Department for an experimental station. "Iron Man" Calles built his rural retreat five years ago when his first wife, by whom he had nine children, died. At Santa Barbara hacienda last November his beauteous young second wife, by whom he had two children, died. He has not been able to live there since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1933 | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Died. Senora Leonor Llorente Calles. 27, second wife of Mexico's political boss and onetime President. General Plutarco Elias Calles; of a brain tumor; in Mexico City. Last June General Calles took his wife to Boston for a brain operation by famed Dr. Harvey Gushing who operated but told General Calles the tumor was mortal. General Calles' first wife, Natalia Chacon Calles, mother of nine, died in 1927 at Los Angeles whither Mexican law forbade Mexico's President to follow during his administration. The second wife, mother of two, singer, law & dentistry student, whom General Calles married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...politics. (In Santander last week Spain's Premier Manuel Azana told a cheering crowd that Spain is a lay state, that religious education will be abolished, a new law of religious congregations passed, and Article 26 of the Constitution, against religious orders, strictly enforced.) "Papalism" helped make bullnecked Plutarco Elias Calles Mexico's boss. Many another politician now employs it as a handy bogey. Most Mexican ladies (voteless) are pious and good. So are Mexico's straw-hatted peasants, although even Pius XI may not be sure what antique pagan notions linger in their Catholicism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Acerba Animi | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...Mexico the real President is General Plutarco Elias Calles, a bull-necked but enlightened political boss. He had enough of being President in 1928, prefers nowadays to make other men Presidents, let them take the risks. In 1929 few Mexicans had ever heard of their Great Engineer, but General Calles had no trouble whatsoever getting him elected. Last week he made a new President almost overnight, made a young one this time, General Abelardo Rodriquez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: President Made | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Ernestina Calles Robinson, daughter of General Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president of Mexico and Minister of War; and Jorge Pasquel, merchant; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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