Word: gil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More and more stringent grow the drink laws of teetotaling Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico. Those who believed that his temperance campaign would be merely a "plan of persuasion and education against drink" were shaken by a bill he signed last week. By it the police were empowered to close instantly and forever any saloon, cabaret or liquor shop where "scandalous conduct" is reported. Worried publicans bit their nails in anxiety over what the police might consider "scandalous conduct...
...Mexico's religious "problem" moved another step nearer solution last week with the Vatican's appointment of Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores as Apostolic Delegate to negotiate with President Portes Gil (TIME...
Peace is a comparative term in Mexico. Last week occurred a battle between Federal troops and Catholic rebels in the town of Mexticac%#225;n, Jalisco. Some 50 rebels were killed, 50 more wounded. Nevertheless, President Portes Gil continued to consider Peace fully restored to his country. Final figures were published about the revolution?4,000 dead, 11,000 wounded, over 50 million dollars damage. And the country's strong man, Plutarco Elias Calles, was allowed to hand back the Ministry of War to General Joaquin Amaro, whose temporary resignation at the beginning of the revolution was blamed...
...painting is Flores Mexicanas (Flowers of Mexico) by Ramos Martinez of Mexico City, who took 15 years to perfect his work. It was bought last week by Mexico's President Emilio Fortes Gil, to be sent to Miss Morrow and Col. Lindbergh on behalf of the President and his wife, Dona Carmen Garcia Deportes...
...much more stringent were these rules than the original suggestions of President Portes Gil two months ago, that distracted distillers and worried brewers had visions of Prohibition...