Word: jalapa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, confident that he had won the good will of numberless Favored Sons, Governor Vazquez Vela was ready for 5,000 ill-favored men, women & children who hunger-marched into Jalapa crying, "Bread and Shelter!" As the pleading throng approached the Governor's Palace police rushed forth, clubbed them back, jailed 60, drove the rest out of Jalapa...
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 Gazette and publish photostats of the law was no trouble at all for the active, able journalists of Mexico City. Excerpts from Veracruz's law: "Property rights of all classes of possessions may be subject to enforced expropriation for reasons of social utility, with indemnification...
...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 law printed in a new edition of the Veracruz Gazette, had the old edition burned. In Jalapa and throughout Veracruz State poor persons promptly began to clamor for expropriation of everything, tenants asking that the houses in which they lived be turned over to them, farmers clamoring to own their rented...