Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Governor of the State of Vera Cruz, Señor Alberto Tejeda.
The Revolutionist-Extraordinary of Mexico, General José Gonzalo Escobar.
"Such a concentration of prominent Mexicans north of the Rio Grande," said Mexico City's famed Universal, "is probably unprecedented in the history of the two republics. . . . Happy augury. . . . We can thank Ambassador Morrow. . . ."
Opportunist. The dark and tousled head of Revolutionist-Extraordinary General José Gonzalo Escobar, who arranged for the killing of 4,000 Mexicans by each other last spring, lay several nights last week on a spotless pillowcase at No. 7750 Colfax Ave., Chicago, home of Vice President Merwin Crawford of...
"I met the General at a banquet in Texas ten years ago," said Printer Crawford, "and for the next three or four years I spent a few days every year with him at Juarez where he was a corps commander. He fled from Mexico when Federalist troops were trying to...