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Bristle-whiskered U. S. Senator James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis defined "moratorium'' by its Latin roots thus: mora from " 'mors' meaning death; 'torium' from 'taurus,' a bull, or the 'dead bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 18, 1932 | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...majority bloc of the Chamber reasserted its dignity next day by expelling from the party four quick-triggered Deputies-all of them adherents of Jalisco's Governor de la Mora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Chamber Music | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Things looked a little black for Governor Ignacio de la Mora of Jalisco last week. In Mexico City a strong group in the.Chamber of Deputies was demanding his removal, charging that he had reestablished peonage in Jalisco, that he had restored the priests to their original political eminence, that he was selling jobs, stuffing ballot boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Chamber Music | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...afternoon the charges against de la Mora were to be heard, strange young men with their hands in their pockets entered the visitors' gallery in the Chamber. Two entered a cigar store across the street. The proprietor heard them say. "This is the day some of those Deputies will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Chamber Music | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...Chamber the attack against Governor de la Mora had just got under way. As unostentatiously as possible many of Mexico's lawmakers divided into little groups and stood near the exits eying each other. In the midst of an anti-de la Mora speech by Deputy Jose Manuel Chavez, two Jalisco deputies, Manuel H. Ruiz and Esteban Garcia de Alba, sprang up demanding to be heard. Ismael Lozano. President of the Chamber, denied them and immediately adjourned the session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Chamber Music | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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