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Mexico's New Finger-President

Harris, Abraham | October 12, 1932 issue

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There was nothing repellently brutal in the elimination of the bovine and perpetually mazed Mexican politician Ortiz Rubio. It was accomplished very gently and courteously. Rubio went willingly. He was fed up with more than two years of being a president de jure. During his incumbency Rubio, as one observer expressed it, went about mooing amiably, laying cornerstones, opening bazaars, making speeches. Despite his weakness and ineffectiveness, Rubio possessed a cultural and family background, traditions of birth and values far superior to the uncouth and unconscionable rabble that surrounded, dominated and ignored him.

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PRESIDENTS; ELIMINATION; ORTIZ, Rubio; SPEECH; ARMIES; MEXICO

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H.L. Mencken, "An Eminent American," July 11, 1923.

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