Word: huerta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remembers the red light which President Woodrow Wilson had flashed on April 21, 1914 from the fighting top of the U. S. S. Arkansas. This signal started the bombardment of Veracruz by ships of U. S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and within a few months unacceptable President Huerta was forced to resign...
Most Mexican Governments do not try too hard to wipe out these guerrillas. Some of them, like Mexico's onetime Provisional President Victoriano Huerta, the late "Pancho" Villa and San Luis Potosi State's present Boss Saturnino Cedillo, eventually become genuine leaders, generals and political powers. Cedillo's standing army of 7,000 is let strictly alone by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas' regular army of 60,000. In time of civil war the bandits are cajoled by both sides. But last week somebody went too far when 13 passengers of a bus in Jalisco...
Plutarco Elías Calles roared into Mexican politics in 1920 as one of the "Sonora triumvirate" of Obregón, de la Huerta & Calles which overthrew and assassinated President Carranza. Calles, a superb executive during his four years (1924-28) as President, built up a potent political machine. After Obregón's assassination in 1928 he could afford to put in a Presidential puppet, Emilio Fortes Gil, and invent the National Revolutionary Party, a tight Fascist organization with a highly Socialistic program of paper promises for the people. Calles and his henchmen unionized Mexican labor, attacked...
Died. William Gunn Shepherd, 55, famed newspaper correspondent, Collier's staff writer; of pneumonia; in Washington. He covered the Madero revolution and the downfall of Huerta in Mexico, the World War on a dozen fronts, the Russian Revolution and the Paris Peace Conference. . He spent two years probing a rumor that President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth had escaped to Texas and Oklahoma, finally reported the story a myth...
Died. Nelson O'Shaughnessy, 56, old-time U. S. diplomat; of heart disease; in Vienna. He held the posts of secretary and charge d'affaires in many a U. S. embassy & legation. He was in Mexico during the Victoriano Huerta regime when U. S. sailors were arrested in Tampico. President Wilson demanded that the Mexican government apologize by saluting the U. S. flag. Huerta refused; O'Shaughnessy left the country escorted by friendly Huerta troops...