Word: edmundo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oaxaca's title-loving Governor Edmundo Sanchez Cano (who usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered...
...Dutra Government is working hard to mend matters. Last week, experts in London and Sāo Paulo were deep in dicker over modernization plans for half a dozen British-owned railways and tram lines. Transport Minister Edmundo de Macedo Scares, back from. Washington, claimed promise of a $50,000,000 credit for new equipment and highways...
...Deputy Edmundo Barreto Pinto will do anything for a laugh. Last week, as usual, he had Rio in stitches...
Hondurans got the tipoff last month when Oppositionist Edmundo Pinto Mejia was arrested, then savagely beaten with the classic verga de toro (bull's pizzle). Newsmen hustling into Guatemala for safety last week reported a new "wave of terror"; Dictator Carías' jails were filling fast...
Passionate protagonist of Texan bilingualism is Mexican-born, Texas-trained Edmundo E. Mireles, who runs Corpus Christi's grade-school Spanish education program. Linguist Mireles (he knows seven languages) spends his days teaching Spanish, his nights brushing up the high-school Spanish of other teachers who strive to keep one Spanish jump ahead of their pupils. Because Mireles says it is unnecessary to know much Spanish to teach a little, some pedagogues eye him askance. But he argues from results...