Word: escobar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Revolutionist-Extraordinary of Mexico, General José Gonzalo Escobar...
Opportunist. The dark and tousled head of Revolutionist-Extraordinary General José Gonzalo Escobar, who arranged for the killing of 4,000 Mexicans by each other last spring, lay several nights last week on a spotless pillowcase at No. 7750 Colfax Ave., Chicago, home of Vice President Merwin Crawford of Crawford & Associates (printers...
Always an able seizer of opportunities, General Escobar tapped the Bank of Montreal in Mexico for $108,000 before his revolution, sent the money to the U. S. where opportunities are brightest...
...Bankers an installment of 26,000,000 pesos ($13,000,000) on what is owed them, whereas in 1929 they received $17,000,000, and the year before $16,250,000. This drastic reduction is accounted for by the Mexican Government's enormous expenditures in putting down the Escobar Revolution and the consequent depletion of Treasury funds. As a Mexican satiric weekly said: "The bankers are silently howling for more money...
...York city one Salvador Ateca, gambling concessionaire of Juarez, Mexico, often mentioned as the financial backer of General Escobar's revolution, was arrested as he prepared to sail for Spain. In his possession was a small black handbag, containing $750,000 in bills, securities and gold pieces, stolen, said representatives of the Mexican Government, from looted banks and the State Treasury of Chihuahua...