Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then neophyte José de Leon Toral, disgusted with his fellows, inspired ' by Mother Concepcion, took the matter in his own hands. More courageous, more resolved, he entered the restaurant La Bombilla, approached General Obregon, face to face (TIME, July 30) shot him dead...
Interviewed by reporters, would-be-dancing-murderess Manzano admitted the plot, gave love for Bomber Balda as a reason for her implication, denied that Mother Concepcion had attended meetings. Said Balda, in exoneration of the clergy, "I alone am responsible for my actions." Toral hinted that he had been inspired, but not incited, by the nun. Mother Concepcion, herself, explained that four years ago cruel laws had driven her from her convent, and that her house had become a centre where people liked to gather for spiritual consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison...
Still, the legend of a secret order, some said designated by the letter U, persisted. There were those who held that Mother Concepcion was not the evil genius, but merely the organizer of the band, a go-between, acting in the interests of an unknown, higher power...
Women were glad: Mrs. Nicholas Roerich, mother and wife of the men, had had the stamina to accompany them through five years of privation. Last week at Darjeeling she was still weak from starvation, long marches, high climbing, winters in thin tents. Two other women had endured with...
Died. Mrs. Ella Traver Allen, mother-in-law of Mayor James Walker of New York; at Clinton, Iowa, before his train reached there; of pernicious anemia...