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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 in 1930, died with a double line of infantry in the street outside. Mexico's President Rodriquez & Cabinet calling at intervals. At her death the Chamber of Deputies went into mourning for three days...

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

...Corcoran. Calif., when arraigned on a charge of hitting his wife with a hoe, meticulous Julio Rodriquez denied the charge, declared it was not a hoe but a shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...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 »

Draping the Grand Cordon across his bosom, Provisional President Rodriquez hurried out to meet friends who were hurrying to tell him the good news. Exactly ten minutes after his election he stood before Congress, proceeded to take the oath : "I swear to observe and to have observed the political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the laws emanating therefrom. I will loyally and patriotically fulfill the office of Provisional President of the republic, looking only and always to the welfare of the country. If I fail to do so, may the nation hold me responsible...

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

...speeches, the Provisional President motored out to General Calles' ranch, got his orders. To date Boss Calles has been broadly friendly to the U. S., mildly hostile to private foreign interests in Mexico, firmly hostile to the Catholic Church. Some years ago he picked Second Lieutenant Abelardo Rodriquez as a good & loyal henchman, secured him rapid promotion to Mexico's highest military rank. General of Division and last year made him War Minister - a supreme mark of trust...

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

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