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Cardenas is a pure Tarascan Indian, contemptuous of sickness and doctors. Last week he ordered that no bulletins on his condition be issued, but his fellow members of Mexico's ruling National Revolutionary Party were already eagerly discussing a temporary President while Cardenas took a long rest somewhere out of Mexico. Boning up on Malta fever. Cardenas' enemies found that it is properly called undulant fever, and that its germ, the Micrococcus melitensis, can be got from drinking raw milk or even from patting diseased cattle. Chances against Cardenas dying of it were...
...final rubber-stamp of the week, the Convention nominated for President by acclamation a pure-blooded Tarascan Indian,* General Lazaro Cardenas, the fierce, secretive go-getter who hunted Bandit Pancho Villa. General Cardenas' taciturnity is a Mexican byword. Since last spring, when Dictator Calles indicated that he would pick Cardenas (TIME, April 3), the general has been studiously "doing nothing," having resigned as Minister of War to comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal...
Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan. He left Michoacan's Governorship to help Boss Calles suppress the 1929 Escobar revolt. He took charge of the Government's troops in the State of Sonora, made a name as an efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity...
...back to their posts. It seemed evident that yet another military revolution had been brewing, a brew chilled by canny General Calles before it could boil over. Over the cafe tables it was insisted that the father of this military miscarriage was General Joaquin Amaro, a cyclopean full-blooded Tarascan Indian, who until he quarreled with General Calles six months ago was always considered the least ambitious, most loyal and efficient of Mexican Generals. Last week General Calles did his best to stop these rumors with a statement...