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Pointing out that the number of priests in the Federal District has been reduced to 25 and eliminated entirely in the States of Tabasco, Zacatecas, Sonora, Chiapas, Vera Cruz, Campechi and Queretaro, the U.S. prelates charged that the churches, schools and dwellings of their Mexican fellows have been expropriated. Denied to all Catholics are the rights of free assembly, free press and free worship and to the clergy, in addition, the right of franchise and even the solace of religious life. Since foreign clergymen are outlawed and native Mexicans prohibited from studying for the priesthood, the Mexican priesthood would soon...
...share for water diverted from the Colorado River. He was bitterly disappointed when the bill passed at the next session. Like many another frontier politician, he dreams of U. S. territorial expansion: three years ago he lustily campaigned for U. S. acquisition of Lower California and a slice of Sonora to straighten out Arizona's southern boundary...
John Jacob Raskob rose from a meal in a little Sonora, Tex. restaurant, handed the waitress a $20 bill. "Keep the change," said...
Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan. He left Michoacan's Governorship to help Boss Calles suppress the 1929 Escobar revolt. He took charge of the Government's troops in the State of Sonora, made a name as an efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity...
...Saga.' If that was a Saga Gun Notches is an Iliad, also an Odyssey. The story of a prairie fire is a bit of an exquisite word painting as ever was written; the incident when Bill Greene at La Cananea and Tom would have taken the State of Sonora from Mexico if Tom could have hog-tied General Kosterlitzsky is a new matter of history...