Word: jalisco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the track opens, Promoter Pagliai hopes every one of its 800 stalls will be filled. Last week 300 horses were already trying out its racing strip - including nine owned by President Camacho, eight owned by Governor Barba González of Jalisco, scores of U.S. racers recently imported from California by Mexican bigwigs. Even ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, who once banned all gambling in Mexico (except the National Lottery), is contemplating a racing stable...
...Hungary. He was a successful lawyer as well as a successful politician. (When he was appointed Foreign Minister in 1940 he registered his personal wealth-as the law requires-as $105,000.) His wife by his second marriage comes from a wealthy family. His home is at 84 Avenida Jalisco near the suburban heights of Chapultepec Park. He is today, not only a statesman, but a man of the world, popular in Mexican society...
They heard the opening adventure, in Jalisco, of a good-natured young man from the U.S. By the end of the half-hour, boy had met girl (Mexican), had danced, heard much music, learned some handy Spanish words and phrases and at least one simple song. Last week's chapter, laid in Michoacan, taught him another. As the radio audience was informed, all songs used in the eight-week series can be had on records...
...male Japs in Baja California (except 55 kept under close surveillance to help the fishermen and keep their canneries running) were evacuated from the peninsula, deposited inland in the State of Jalisco and set to work farming...
While President Manuel Avila Camacho rushed troops and supplies to Colima by plane, Mexico set about the methodical task of totting up its damage. Dead were at least 84 people, including 36 at Colima, 27 at Tuxpan in the State of Jalisco. Mexico City miraculously suffered no casualties. Property losses were reckoned at more than $2,000,000. Of these, some $800,000 were in Mexico City...