Word: guadalajara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avoids it because the Catalans, no lovers of the monarchy, think nothing of regicide and occasionally throw bombs at royal persons. They are revolutionaries to a man and their principal city is a fester of social and political unrest. José de Creeft, sculptor, is no exception. Born in Guadalajara, he studied in Barcelona and has been an art-rebel since his early days. He shocked and amused Paris with his many sculptural stunts: a picador astride, concocted with stovepipes, pot scrapers, an egg beater, some fuzz and the lid of a pan; a statue...
...hour service has been lengthened to 14½ hours. Now connected with the trans-Atlantic circuit are Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Malmo, Stockholm and eight Mexican cities. The latest extension, completed last fortnight, carries the service to Guadalajara, Mexico...
...Bloody Trail." A band of outlaws believed to be the same as those who attacked with frightful butchery the Guadalajara-Mexico City Express (TIME, May 2) attempted to repeat this outrage last week, upon a Juarez-Mexico City train...
...Apparently the work of destruction was deliberately planned and deliberately carried out. It was a crusade of vengeance for the execution two weeks ago of Catholic plotters in Guadalajara. The Rev. J. M. Vega, a priest well known in Guadalajara, who led the hills-men, said to passengers who spoke to him while the pillage was continuing: 'The hand of God has descended upon this train. The Almighty has smitten...
...what of the Presidential announcement of the burning to death of Senora Refugia Obregon Ponce de Leon? That confessed War Minister Amaro, had been a slightly premature announcement. The Senora Ponce de Leon had been expected to travel by the attacked train but, actually, she remained safe at Guadalajara. Disgusted correspondents who had cabled this news as fact throughout the world, resolved to cable no more until eye-witness refugee's arrived from the scene of atrocity. They came on a special train which steamed into Mexico City amid sorrowing crowds...