Word: sonora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigger than all New England is the Mexican state of Sonora. Biggest news of the week in Sonora was a ferocious scheme, calmly announced by the great landed proprietor Francisco Fimbres to put to death a whole tribe of Apache Indians, braves, squaws and papooses. Local papers praised Ferocious Fimbres. He claimed to have every assurance that the Mexican Government would not try to stop his private massacre...
Favorable to patent litigation is such an anonymous condition, and out of the radio world came last week announcement of a patent war. Attacking was Kolster Radio Corp. Defending were 19 radio-makers including Grigsby-Gruno (Majestic), National Carbon* (Eveready), Crosley, Zenith, Stewart-Warner, Sonora-"independent" set-makers all. Not included was Radio Corp. of America...
...months ago the insurrectos held the northern half of Mexico. Then they were forced back into their base of operations, the State of Sonora (TIME,, April 22), where U. S. citizens go to get hard drinks and easy divorces. Weeping bitterly last week Governor Fausto Topete of Sonora ordered the insurrecto flag hauled down, then fled across the invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains...
Meanwhile the Mexican revolution (TIME, March 11 et seq.) was rapidly petering out. The diminished rebel army under General José Gonzalo Escobar retained control of only one state, Sonora. Federal General Juan Andreu Almazan was collecting an army of 10,000 men to complete the mopping...
...there's a girrl in New York who's prettier than any in all of Mexico," said he with a scornful glance at the palpitant trulls of Sonora. "She's Erin O'Brien-Moore, and you haven't seen a lovely girrl until you've seen...