Word: soto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish you would have your type-founders get you up a lower-case "&." It would ease the pain of many of us old-time printers, and decidedly improve the appearance of the couplet. The Spanish use of "y" as in "Gomez y Soto" to indicate the paternal and maternal names of an individual gives a much better appearance than would the use of a capital...
MEXICO "Earthquake! Earthquake!" "Mexico's Idol of Flesh and Blood" was boldly denounced and defied before the Mexican Congress last week by fiery spellbinder and factional leader Senor Antonio Soto y Gama. Though he dared not name "Mexico's Idol," the denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional...
...little, swart Fernando De Soto (1499-1542) who discovered the big, fatherly Mississippi River...
...throttle wide open. Item A: the new Plymouth, a four-cylinder car, with Silver-Dome high-compression engine which uses any gasoline, capable of a speed of more than 60 miles per hour, selling for $670 (roadster, coupe) up to $725 (four-door sedan). Item B: the new De Soto, a six-cylinder car selling for less than $1,000. In performance and appearance, it is similar to the new Chrysler 65, a slightly more expensive car. "Much for little" is the idea behind the De Soto...
Morones Forced Out. Not to defend Roman Catholicism, but to discredit the Mexican Federation of Labor was the shrewd purpose of Senor Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, leader of the rival Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...