MEXICO: God & Go-Getter

Delegates from the State of Tabasco rushed into the convention of Mexico's ruling National Revolutionary Party last week with a program as hot as their peppers.*

The Party was about to rubber-stamp Dictator-General Plutarco Elias Calles' choice of a new henchman to be shoved by the Party steamroller into the presidency of Mexico next July, but first the rubber stamp meeting was permitted to be roused to enthusiasm by Tabasco.

Despite the piety of his two dead wives, Dictator Calles is well known to rate in the Vatican's estimation as a ruthless enemy of...

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