Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
"I met the General at a banquet in Texas ten years ago," said Printer Crawford, "and for the next three or four years I spent a few days every year with him at Juarez where he was a corps commander. He fled from Mexico when Federalist troops were trying to...
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.
''We bought an old what-you-call flivver last fall," reminisces Guillermo. ''For weeks we rode around making much fun. But one day the flivver broke down six miles from Gettysburg and we left it there for a good joke."
Lucky 13. Under Mexican law the first five voters who appear at a polling booth on election morn are the legal guardians of that booth for the rest of the day. In Baltimore last week friends of General Manuel Pérez Trevino, President of the Grand Revolutionary Party, congratulated...