Word: ramirez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent rash of big ideas among heads of Central American states (see below) last week broke out in Nicaragua. Jeronimo Ramirez Brown, Minister of the Interior, announced that employers will be fined if they fail to give employes at least two hours for lunch or fail to provide chairs on which idle employes...
Afraid that many civil servants would have to quit their jobs or die of malnutrition because the 50% depreciation of Nicaragua's currency has raised living costs beyond their reach, drastic Finance Minister Benito Ramirez last week doubled the pay of all Government employes, including himself...
Tales were told of hunters who had been beaten, of other strange disappearances among men who had trespassed on the King Ranch. The Mexican consul at Brownsville suggested that the Rangers also look for two Mexicans, Jesus Rivera and Reyes Ramirez, who were last seen months ago walking into the King Ranch to hunt. But the Blantons were white men and citizens. Rangers were kept as busy disarming posses as scouring miles & miles of the King Ranch...
...they concentrate in the central and western States surrounding Mexico City. Through Puebla and Morelos roams El Tallarin, one of the most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until last week the small bands of Fermin Sandoval and Camilo Ramirez Argot ("The Rabbit")* had occupied themselves attacking busses, robbing, raping and killing passengers, attacking unprotected school teachers and agrarian communities and generally spreading the pious word of the "Cristeros...
...Mexican army promptly went into concerted action. In Guanajuato State they ambushed Ramirez the Rabbit, killed him and 21 of his men. They decapitated him and' paraded his head on a staff through the villages he had terrorized. In Durango State, Francisco Vasquez, tougher and smarter than the Rabbit, rode into an ambush but escaped alive. He left behind twelve dead and a new machine gun. Three days later troops met Fermin Sandoval in Guanajuato, killed him and three of his men, paraded his head through the nearby villages, to convince incredulous peasants that Sandoval was really dead. None...