Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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...
Candidate Rubio is pledged to carry out the Party's aggressively radical economic and social programs. He shares the attitude toward Catholicism of General Calles who, while President of Mexico, publicly defied what he called "the grunts of the Pope." Betting odds favor Candidate Rubio so overwhelmingly that, taking a...
Candidate José Vasconcelos, hero of Mrs. Morrow's lady petitioners, is pugnaciously campaigning on a platform of votes for women, no second terms for Mexican presidents, reduction of the Mexican Army, more conservative Government policies (notably curtailment of the practice of expropriating large estates and turning them over to the...
While Brazilian Consul-General Sebastaio Sampaio did his best to soothe with fine words New York's unruly coffee market, President Washington Luis Pereira de Souza of Brazil struggled in Rio de Janeiro with a coffee crisis twice as acute, infinitely more ominous.