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Oaxaca's title-loving Governor Edmundo Sanchez Cano (who usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered...
Results followed pronto. One Enrique Sanchez del Monte, 47, a wealthy sugar and cattle man, confessed that he had paid thugs $3,000 for the Valdés attempt, $5,000 for the boy's death. Furthermore, he had offered $6,000 for the murder of his beautiful ex-wife Maria who escaped to the U.S. with their two daughters last fortnight. His motive, if true, looked like Balzacian revenge. Valdés and the boy's lawyer-father had won Maria her divorce and custody of the two children...
Magna cum Laude: Wayland Colelman Griffith, William Edward Keller, Charles Thomas Noonan, Deniel Perking Smith Paul, Thomas Erwin Phipps, Jr., and Guillermo Cornelio Sanchez...
Four newly-elected seniors, Henry A. Frey '44, Rolf W. Landauer '47, Daniel A. S. Paul '46 and Guillermo C. Sanchez '46, were present at Phi Beta Kappa's annual public meeting held a Fogg Museum yesterday morning. Poet at the literary exercises was Wallace Steven '01, who read his "Description Without Place." Summer Welles '14, for Under-Secretary of State, gave the oration. Following are excerpts from Welles' address to the honor society...
...Vibrant, gimlet-eyed Octavio Vejar Vasquez succeeded leftist Luis Sanchez Ponton as Minister of Education. He is a conservative, close to Mexico's powerful Catholic Church. To him goes the praise, and the blame, for abolishing coeducation in Mexican schools. He also recently ordered all schoolteachers to abandon their political activity...