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After the revolt, Adolfo de la Huerta became Provisional President ' until Señor Obregon was elected to that dignity. Then peace reigned for three years; and the Sonora triplets were indispensable to one another?Calles as Ministro de la GobernaciÓn (Minister of the Interior), de la Huerta as Minister of Finance. In the fourth year of this regime, the 1924 election loomed. Mexicans speculated as to whether Calles or de la Huerta would succeed President Obregon. The latter favored his right-hand man and favorite, General Calles. For a time, de la Huerta also favored him, because, as allegedly...
...came the Porfirio Diaz Revolution; Calles was among the first to join against Diaz. Came the fierce revolt against Francisco Madero; Calles rose from the ranks to a colonelcy. Came the Victoriana Huerta Rebellion; General Alvaro Obregon found Calles, made him a general in command of the Sonora army. From this moment, the beneficent shade of Señor Obregon hovered about him. Governor of Sonora he became, and then Cabinet Minister. And, when the snappy struggle against President Carranza began, the Sonora triumvirate? Obregon, Calles and Adolfo de la Huerta?was in being...
While in the U. S. the "Tiger of Sonora," described as looking "bronzed and impassive . . . hard as nails both physically and mentally," made a number of statements...
...Hyde, G. B. '12, of the S. D. Warren Paper Company is president of the Business School Alumni Association Mr. M. B. Pinkham, G. B. '18 of the Sonora Phonograph Company is vice-president; and Mr. C. E. Fraser '21 of the Harvard Bureau of Business Research, is secretary treasurer...
Similar permission has been extended in the past, the last occasion being in October, 1915, and again in November, 1915, when the de facto Government of Mexico, headed by Mr. Carranza, was allowed to transport Mexican troops from the Texas border through the United States to the State of Sonora, Mexico, where American lives and property were in serious danger from the operations of Mexican revolutionary bands...