Word: hidalgos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rough and raucous Governor Vargas Lugo of the State of Hidalgo seized last week from its British owners the Cruz Azul Portland Cement factory, largest in Mexico, appraised for taxation at 1,000,000 pesos...
...group of Britons whose Government happens to be on the other side of the earth and headed by an avowed Pacifist, shrewd Governor Lugo hoped to set a precedent for plucking U. S. investors. The only questions were: 1) Is a cement factory a public utility? 2) Is Hidalgo's law constitutional in Mexico...
...Hidalgo are the world's largest silver mines, owned by U. S. and British citizens, possible objects of expropriation...
...Mexico City suburbs. San Angel became Obregon, Congress substituting for the "Holy Angel" one-armed General Alvaro Obregon, famed champion of the Revolution and one of the most popular presidents Mexico has ever had, who was assassinated in San Angel by a religious fanatic in 1928. The suburb Guadalupe-Hidalgo (a double-barreled name recalling both the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, and Father Miguel Hidalgo, a priest active in the struggle for independence from Spain) became the suburb Gustavo Madero. Assassinated in 1913, Gustavo Madero was a brother of famed Mexican President Francisco Madero, also assassinated...
...opposing candidates were Arturo Alessnndri, a former President of Chile and Manuel Hidalgo, Communist. Chilean hard times were expected to bring Communist Hidalgo many votes, but his rumored connection with the ineffectual Chilean naval mutiny lost him much popular sympathy. Candidate Alessandri had put through (when President) Chile's broad labor laws, workmen nocked...