Word: expropriationism
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Addressed to the Mexican hierarchy, Acerba animi flays the anti-religious propaganda, expropriation of churches, exile of clergy and suppression of religious instruction in primary schools by Mexico's National Revolutionary Party (Government). "Iniquitous" and "impious" are the laws limiting clergy, designed under the Constitution to "correspond to the...
In the State of Veracruz, where foreigners have invested more than $120,000,000, the State Legislature had just unanimously passed a sweeping expropriation law. The Governor of Veracruz must not sign that bill-but he had. Well then, he must not publish it in the Veracruz Official Gazette, thereby...
Breathlessly Mexico City awaited the reaction of big-boned, hard-featured Governor Tejeda. Quick acting but slow thinking, he ordered all copies of the Official Gazette impounded, took his time to consider. To grease a few palms in Jalapa, the capital of Veracruz, to get a copy of the forbidden...
In Jalapa the more Governor Adalberto Tejeda thought about the law the better he liked it. Rumors from Mexico City that he would kill it only made him more stubborn. At last Governor Tejeda substituted for the word "social" the word "public" (a change of no importance ordered the revised...
In Hidalgo are the world's largest silver mines, owned by U. S. and British citizens, possible objects of expropriation.