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First white man on record to enter what is now Nevada was Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces, priest of the Order of St. Francis. Seeking a route to upper California from Sonora, Mexico, he crossed what is now the State's southwestern corner in 1775. Let Reader Edwards refer to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dictionary of American Biography, C. A. Engelhardt's The Missions and Missionaries of California...
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...
...shootings in the chamber were not the only sad incidents in Mexico last week. As secretly as possible trainloads of Federal troops were hustled north to Sonora. Rumors persisted along the border that seven separate rebel armies were drilling in the dusty mountains, preparing to overthrow Governor Ramon Ramos, a stanch Calles adherent...
Four years ago "Tony" Biddle and seven other onetime directors of bankrupt Sonora Products Corp. of America were sued by the company's receiver, Irving Trust Co.. which charged them with general mismanagement and with diverting $1,500,000 worth of profits from stock sales to their own pockets. A Federal District judge acquitted the defendants, was reversed last autumn by a Circuit Court of Appeals. Last May, on the request of Irving Trust which charged that his "pecuniary position is precarious" and that he had been "fraudulently conveying away his property" until he had "substantially stripped himself...
...first cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, he has managed to mix with considerable grace business, horses and the conspicuous restlessness of the very rich. He helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is now its board-chairman. He has large holdings of irrigated land in the State of Sonora, Mexico, where he persuaded truculent Yaqui Indians to raise fresh vegetables for midwinter Manhattan tables. He even has the distinction of having been defeated for Congress, as Representative from Long Island's Suffolk & Nassau Counties, on a Democratic ticket in the 1932 landslide...