Word: tejeda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most striking in the collection is a series of brilliant reproductions of Mayan pottery, done in water colors by Tejeda, a native Guatamalan of the expedition. The Guatamalan government allows none of the originals to be taken from the country...
Adalberzo Tejeda's word is all but law in the oil-rich coastal State of Veracruz. He subscribes to the "regular" Mexican politics of Socialism and atheism, but he is drastic and immediate about it. In 1932, as Governor of Veracruz, he pushed through the State Legislature a law subjecting "property rights of all classes of possessions ... to enforced expropriation for reasons of social utility, with indemnification." At this great grab even Calles' Federal politicians were appalled. They ordered Tejeda to back down. He pondered the law. finally changed the word "social" to "public" and signed...
Breathlessly Mexico City awaited the reaction of big-boned, hard-featured Governor Tejeda. Quick acting but slow thinking, he ordered all copies of the Official Gazette impounded, took his time to consider. To grease a few palms in Jalapa, the capital of Veracruz, to get a copy of the forbidden Gazette and publish photostats of the law was no trouble at all for the active, able journalists of Mexico City. Excerpts from Veracruz's law: "Property rights of all classes of possessions may be subject to enforced expropriation for reasons of social utility, with indemnification...
Sneered El Excelsior of Mexico City: "In one word, as if by witchcraft. . . . Governor Tejeda becomes as crafty a boss as ever was produced by the Asiatic continent . . . absolute sovereign over all property in Veracruz, a stupendous miracle which would have made Mahomet the prophet envious...
...Jalapa the more Governor Adalberto Tejeda thought about the law the better he liked it. Rumors from Mexico City that he would kill it only made him more stubborn. At last Governor Tejeda substituted for the word "social" the word "public" (a change of no importance ordered the revised law printed in a new edition of the Veracruz Gazette, had the old edition burned. In Jalapa and throughout Veracruz State poor persons promptly began to clamor for expropriation of everything, tenants asking that the houses in which they lived be turned over to them, farmers clamoring to own their rented...