Word: tapia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ardent Leftist and widely regarded as the man who will wear the Cardenas silks in the race. He offered to hold a banquet for his two leading rivals, conservative General Manuel Avila Camacho, who resigned as Minister of National Defense, and moderate General Rafael Sánchez Tapia, resigned commander of the Federal Military Zone. The feast would show the country that the three could be political rivals and still good friends. Unfortunately, his opponents did not feel the same way about it. They declined. Candidate Múgica decided to give the banquet for himself...
...courts of the Chapultepec Sports Club where he used to chase balls. But fair-haired young Clifford Sutler of New Orleans, playing lazily, beat him 6-1, 6-0, 6-1. The only satisfaction the crowd got the first day was the one set that small, slight Dr. Ricardo Tapia-who has been Mexican singles champion for the last five years, whose sister Maria is Mexico's woman champion and whose youngest brother Armando gives promise of becoming Mexico's best player-won from Wilmer Allison, in a match that Allison had to stir his stumps...