Word: serranos
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...stonemason in the village of La Huacana, west of Mexico City, Eulogio Serrano, 32. was earning 15 pesos ($1.20) a day working on the town's new school when he made up his mind to go to the U.S. and put in a season picking lettuce...
California's Imperial Valley. At first his wife would not hear of it. "You're no peon, to work in the lettuce fields," she argued. But Serrano, a short, husky Tarascan Indian, overruled her. "Imagine!" he said. "They pay 80 American cents an hour, 130 pesos a day. We can get another cow or two. In time, a bull. Dresses for you and our daughters." His vision of himself as a bountiful provider grew, and he even talked of buying a farm...
...blue and gilt private car, the smiling, curly-haired young prince acknowledged his welcome. Behind him, whispering a word in his ear from time to time, was a short, leathery man in the olive uniform of the Spanish army. He was Lieut. General Carlos Martinez de Campos y Serrano. Duque de la Torre, the guardian chosen by Franco and Don Juan to guide the prince over the long and narrow path to kingship...
...murder of a newsman. The defendants offered evidence that they had been framed by top officials working with the Alemán-created Federal Security Police, an outfit said to have been controlled by Miguel Alemán's pal, ex-Senate President Carlos Serrano. As their story unfolded, Justice Corona interrupted to loose the most scathing blast yet against the Alemán regime by a highly placed Mexican...
...unwillingly back in the news. Using the name Miguel A. Valdés (his mother's family name) he took off from New York on a Pan-American Stratocruiser for Paris. He was accompanied by five companions, of whom Mexico City papers named only such notables as Carlos Serrano, ex-president of the Senate, and Antonio Díaz Lombardo, former director of social security and one of the new millionaires of the Alemán administration. Within a few hours the capital buzzed with another name. According to the passenger manifest, it was that of Alem...