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In a last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Morrows & Election | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Candidates. In the presidential race the Grand Revolutionary Party of President Emilio Portes Gil is running scarfaced, jut-lipped Pascual Ortiz Rubio, one-time Ambassador to Brazil, a party regular picked by Mexico's most potent political boss, General Plutarco Elias Calles who put down the revolution of last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Morrows & Election | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

The grant of supreme executive power to President Emilio Portes Gil in revising the criminal code may surely appear to most as a drastic reform. Considering the national peculiarities of the country, however, any discussion of the particular measures should prove of interest and even of value. The substitution of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEXICAN CODE | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

Walking like Agag in the sight of the Lord, delicately, Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, apostolic delegate, senior Archbishop of Mexico, and Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico, still jockeyed last week for a final settlement of Mexico's religious problem. Conferences progressed but neither side would make a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Heart Not Photographed | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Last week, en route to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow rode from Washington to San Antonio on the same train with Mexican Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, head of the Mexican Hierarchy. The venerable prelate, because of violent trouble between Church and State, had left Mexico a year before. Now, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fevers, Firing Squad | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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