Word: yaqui
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Orphan. Farmer boy. Colleague of Yaqui Indians. Keeper of a general store. Employe of a U. S. engineering firm. Rural politician. Recruiter of a two-thirds Indian army in the revolution against Dictator Porfirio Diaz who had been seven times President of Mexico-such was the manner in which Orphan Obregon became General...
...increased by 34,000,000 pesos over the previous year; 973 oil concessions were registered; 125 out of 147 oil companies registered last December had submitted to the new laws; budget remained unbalanced, but the Government was more than ever determined to enforce rigid economy in its services; the Yaqui rising and the rebellions in the States of Jalisco and Guanajuto (TiME, May 2 et seq.) were noted as disturbing factors in the economic life of the nation...
Twelve thousand cartridges were fired last week by Mexican soldiers in the Cañon de Mazabampo, between 9 a. m. and 3 p. m., as the perennial guerrilla war (TIME, Oct. 4) to subdue rebellious Yaqui Indian tribes continued. Killed by the 12,000 shots were three Indians; wounded, seven; subdued and captured...
...crown the anti-Yaqui campaign of the week, came news that War Minister Amaro was seriously wounded by a reputed Yaqui sniper near Ocotlan- though in other despatches he who sniped was said to be a mutinied Mexican trooper...
...further nefarious use to which the anti-Yaqui campaign will undoubtedly be put lies in the use of the soldiers thus mobilized to enforce the anti-religious policy of the Calles Administration, (TIME, Oct. 4 et ante...