Word: jalisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priests have refused to be registered. From this apparently trifling but actually fundamental disagreement others have venomously sprung, resulting in the expulsion of the Prelates from Mexico, the suspension of service in Mexican churches, and the actual fomentation of civil war by militantly religious elements in the State of Jalisco...
...year; 973 oil concessions were registered; 125 out of 147 oil companies registered last December had submitted to the new laws; budget remained unbalanced, but the Government was more than ever determined to enforce rigid economy in its services; the Yaqui rising and the rebellions in the States of Jalisco and Guanajuto (TiME, May 2 et seq.) were noted as disturbing factors in the economic life of the nation...
...Mexico City the U. S. Embassy made formal protest last week to the Mexican Government at the murder in Mexico during the past month of three U. S. citizens: George Holmes, slain in the state of Chihuahua; Edgar M. Wilkins, killed in Jalisco; and Frederick C. Combs who was done to death in Sonora...
Since these were by way of being "routine assassinations," and since so many other U. S. citizens slain in Mexico are unavenged, it was especially notable that the police of Guadalajara, Jalisco, seized seven Indians last week and executed them as the slayers of Edgar Wilkins...
...courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits in Spain and France; ordained priest in 1899, bishop in 1923. His face showed no benignity save when he smiled. In the civilian clothes that he wore? soft hat, grey suit, knitted tie?he looked like a superintendent of a railroad...