Word: huerta
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Then I obtained a job in a railway office as an accountant. . . . The President of Mexico, Huerta, was afraid to trust Mexicans to guard him, so he employed Cubans, and I met one in the railway office. I told him I was an American Department of Justice agent and was after a murderer from Ohio, who I was sure was in the Mexican army. Then he helped me some by showing me several garrisons...
...went to [U. S. Charge d'Affaires] O'Shaughnessy and together we bluffed our way into Chapultepec Castle. We went to the second floor and there was old Huerta drunk in bed. I became so intimate that I sat on the edge of the bed and emerged with an order to inspect all the garrisons of the capital. After looking over the 23 garrisons . . . I decided that I had better head for Vera Cruz and the fleet, because, if they learned I was an American Marine officer I would have been shot...
...Angeles Enrico Caruso Jr., 26, loud, barrel-chested son of the late great tenor, is taking singing lessons. His instructor: Adolfo de la Huerta, onetime Provisional President of Mexico. Said Junior Caruso: "I never believed I could reflect credit on [my father's] memory. But I feel now that I can. . . . Dad told me: 'The cemeteries are full of tenors who tried to sing Othello.' I want to sing that one best of all. . . . That would make Dad proud...