Word: alvaro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boss" Calles' Revenge. The "Political Boss" of Mexico is former President Plutarco Elias Calles, co-founder of the Grand Revolutionary Party with the late, great, assassinated President Alvaro Obregon. Last week he had revenge on District Attorney John A. Vails of Laredo, Tex., who had wished to arrest him on a murder charge as his special train passed through that city (TIME, Dec. 23), and who had denounced Calles to U. S, Secretary of State Henry L Stimson as "the greatest exponent of Bolshevism in the Western Hemisphere."* Back in Mexico after a pleasure trip to Europe, General Calles...
...last week, in which 19 Mexicans were killed, 23 wounded, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio, government-supported candidate, was elected by a reputed majority of 700,000 to serve as President for the remaining four years, nine months and 23 days of the six-year term of assassinated president-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
...result of the ending of Mexico's religious troubles 80 nuns were ordered released from the penal islands of Tres Marias (The Three Marys). But Madre Maria Concepcion Acebedo de la Llata, "intellectual author" of the murder of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TiME, Sept. 3, et seq.) remained behind...
Thus by a gesture intended principally for local effect, Chief Rebel Valenzuela sought to identify himself with the magic name of his old heroic friend, General Alvaro Obregon, who was assassinated last year shortly after his re-election as President of Mexico (TIME, July 30). Last week indeed the murdered President's widow, Senora Maria Tapita Obregori, was understood to have added a letter of fervent supplication to the documents despatched by Señor Valenzuela to Washington...
...General Francisco Manzo and Governor Fausto Topete of the State of Sonora, renowned for fierce Yaqui Indians and divorces by "mutual consent." The "A" and "B" revolts were synchronous, and the high officials concerned have in common that they are all old associates of the late assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30), and are a supporters of presidential candidate General Gilberto Valenzuela, called by his enemies el Capitan de los Cristeros, a nickname implying he is the military chief of embattled Mexican Roman Catholics...