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Weil-Heeled Heirs. Jose Yves Liman-tour III, grandson of Diaz' nimble-witted Secretary of Treasury, conducts the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Oct. 4); his father, Guillermo Limantour, is Mexico City's top real-estate operator, and owns large chunks of Avenida Juarez. Rivaling Guillermo in real estate is Pedro Corcuera, the sugar king of Jalisco, who saw the Revolution coming, cannily swapped his country estates for city holdings...
Mexico has two top conductors. They do not like each other much. Conductor Carlos Chávez of the National Symphony Orchestra has referred (in print) to José Yves Limantour as a "calumniator, howler, fool, evil person . . . and despicable." Limantour of the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra is equally outspoken about...
...From Mexico there leaked out a story of a concession of 250,000 acres of land leased for five years by the Mexican Government to Compania Mexicana Veracruzana for the exploration and exploitation of oil. The concession lay between the towns of Jalapa and Misantla...
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...
...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...