Word: rubio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house, made off with two bottles of vanilla extract. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Walter Tucker told police that someone had broken into his garage, left three automobile tires and wheels worth over $50. In Brighton, Iowa, Bank Cashier L. B. Luithly reported that the man who broke into the Rubio Savings Bank took nothing more valuable than two fountain pens...
Shining Career. But Genaro was established as presidential bootblack. He bent over the shoes of stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas bought him a specially made English car that he could drive himself. Avila Camacho paid off a $300 mortgage on his house...
Soft-voiced, sentimental Manuel Avila Camacho, the man of harmony, sat between doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull-necked Portes Gil. There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects...
...Avila Camacho, who called for full collaboration with the United Nations. Standing beside him last week for Mexico and all the world to see were six living past Presidents: Adolfo de la Huerta (1920); General Plutarco Elías Calles (1924-28); Emilio Fortes Gil (1928-30); Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1930-32); General Abelardo Rodriguez (1932-34); General Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40), who exiled Calles in 1936. Five of them posed for a historic picture (see cut). The crowd in the Plaza saw the neatest demonstration of unity in Mexico's history. From...
...vaulted the garden wall of the widow of the man he had killed and set about earnestly serenading her. He was finally collected, plopped back into jail under an additional charge of trespassing. Senor Rodriguez further announced that, in addition to serenading the woman he had widowed, Fernando Ortiz Rubio had written "improper expressions" on the wall of her house...