Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope because of secular outcries against it-the black-cassocked fathers and their work in California became unpopular and they were ousted. Their work was taken over by brown-cassocked Franciscans under the leadership of 54-year-old Fray Junipero, who had been born in Majorca, missionized in Mexico, learned the tongue of the Fame Indians and taught at the college of San Fernando...
Left. By Bronson Cutting, onetime (1927-35) U. S. Senator from New Mexico, killed in a 1935 airplane accident: an estate of $3,299,725. exclusive of real estate. Specific bequests made by Senator Cutting, a bachelor, amounted to $1,-90,676, were made to 184 beneficiaries...
...from San Francisco, a small, freckled, poker-faced, soft-spoken Tennessean named William Walker, 29 years old, sailed with 45 assorted killers, down-and-outers and adventurers to capture Lower California as the first step in privately annexing Mexico and Central...
John Humphrey, Jr., Clovis, New Mexico--Clovis High School...
Thomas E. Lusk, Lovington, New Mexico--New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, New Mexico...