Word: zapata
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MEXICO AROUND ME - Max Miller - Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). Max Miller covers Mexico "from end to end twice and crosswise," finds it badly shopworn until he meets a peasant colonel who fought for ten years with Zapata...
TEMPEST OVER MEXICO?Rosa E. King ?Little, Brown ($3). Stilted but interesting reminiscences of the Zapata revolution, written by an Englishwoman who owned the largest hotel in Cuernavaca...
...went to Mexico last week from Zapata County, Texas. Through 143 miles of spandy new 12¾ inch pipe it hissed across the border to feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...
...Huerta was at once officially recognized by 26 of the 27 states and territories, and he held undisputed power for five days till Madero's death. He has since done his best to pacify the republic, the opposition being almost wholly due to bandits, among whom are the detested Zapata and Villa, and Madero's brother-in-law, Carranza. The country is much quieter now than it has been for some time, and a peaceful election is looked for on October...