Word: jalisco
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...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...
...compared with the spasm that shook provincial cities. Mexico City, reclaimed from swamp, rests on a shock-absorbing cushion of mud. The earthquake's center was on the Pacific Coast, between Manzanillo and the beach resort of Acapulco. From there it spread fanwise through the hills, north to Jalisco, south to Oaxaca...
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...
...show that Foreign Secretary Hay meant business, the Mexican Official Gazette announced on the day the note was delivered that 1,800 acres of pasture land in the State of Jalisco had just been confiscated from Dora and Oscar Newton, U. S. citizens. In point of plain fact, Mexico had told Mr. Hull to go jump in the Rio Grande; that U. S. citizens who own little as well as big properties in Mexico will get paid for their seizure when, as and if the Mexican Government feels like it. All he proposed was that the two Governments appoint representatives...
...left behind twelve dead and a new machine gun. Three days later troops met Fermin Sandoval in Guanajuato, killed him and three of his men, paraded his head through the nearby villages, to convince incredulous peasants that Sandoval was really dead. None of this solved the bus massacre in Jalisco where Bandit Lauro Rocha is too potent to be seriously bothered...