Word: tabascan
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Canabal, 52, onetime Governor of Mexico's Tabasco State (1920-35); of cancer; in Los Angeles. As Governor, he issued rigid decrees against corsets and alcohol, outlawed tombstones, ordered priests to marry. Minister of Agriculture under Cardenas in 1935, he was shortly implicated in the machine-gunning of Tabascan students, who at tempted to return from Canabalistic deportation, subsequently exiled himself from Mexico...
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