Word: maderos
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...beat the life out of Villa Sr. He shoots the flogger, scampers into the hills. He is next to be observed grown up into Wallace Beery, head of a plundering horseback gang, with a lieutenant named Sierra (Leo Carillo) and a childlike appetite for shootings and hangings. When Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall), who was historically Mexico's president from November 1911 to February 1913. appears on the scene he realizes Villa's usefulness, invites him to make his gang a regiment...
Died. William Gunn Shepherd, 55, famed newspaper correspondent, Collier's staff writer; of pneumonia; in Washington. He covered the Madero revolution and the downfall of Huerta in Mexico, the World War on a dozen fronts, the Russian Revolution and the Paris Peace Conference. . He spent two years probing a rumor that President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth had escaped to Texas and Oklahoma, finally reported the story a myth...
Died. Henry Lane Wilson, 76, Ambassador to Mexico during the 1910 revolution and the assassination of President Madero (1913); of pneumonia; in Indianapolis. Son of a U. S. Minister to Venezuela, grandson of the founder of Lafayette (Ind.). he published Lafayette's Journal (1882-85), turned lawyer-banker in Spokane, lost much of his fortune in the 1893 panic...
...leave me alone. I'm just plain human." Died. Sherburne Gillette Hopkins. 63, international lawyer of Washington, D. C.; in Washington. He and his father, Thomas S. Hopkins, legally advised and directed many a Latin-American revolution. Among their clients: Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Adolfo de la Huerta, the republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan in their attempt to gain independence from Soviet Russia. His son, Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins, was Peggy-Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner's second husband. Died. Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor of The Living Church; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee...
...assassinated in San Angel by a religious fanatic in 1928. The suburb Guadalupe-Hidalgo (a double-barreled name recalling both the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, and Father Miguel Hidalgo, a priest active in the struggle for independence from Spain) became the suburb Gustavo Madero. Assassinated in 1913, Gustavo Madero was a brother of famed Mexican President Francisco Madero, also assassinated...