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General Henriquez, 53, is a strong, silent Old Revolutionary from the Rio Grande border who made $50 million building roads on government contracts. Last month, without waiting to see whom President Aleman would name as candidate of the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), the general launched his campaign. He plastered the capital? with posters proclaiming, "Henriquez Guzmán-Candidate of the People," and set out to canvass the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Shutdown Treatment | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...oldtime PRI stalwart who has dished out stern treatment to political irregulars in his time, Henriquez took the punishment quietly. Things were not likely to get much easier. He still had 26 states to visit, all of them PRI-ruled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Shutdown Treatment | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Initial contributions to the new Fund have been made by the American Medical future funds will be solicited from pri-Association and several other groups; vate sources. At first the funds will be split evenly 79 ways, pending discovery of an "equitable" distribution scheme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School Gets Share in National $5,000,000 Fund | 5/18/1951 | See Source »

Idea Man. In Colorado Springs, Pri vate Joseph Hollingsworth walked into the police station, announced that he had murdered his wife last March. In Seattle, police found Mrs. Hollingsworth very much alive. Said she: "Joe . . . gets funny ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...division who had committed the same heinous crime. They were fed on C rations during this time, given a pro-(that's funny to us) and finally taken back to the rest center in time to catch their return boat under armed guard." Concluded Corporal Brennan and Pri vate Sill with restrained wrath: "Do re sponsible authorities ever realize the effect an incident like this has on the morale of troops at the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: G.I. Nonsense | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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