Word: amaro
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...days Envoy Richberg cooled his heels, diplomatically saying little and not denying reports that he would propose a compromise whereby the companies would operate the wells for the Mexican Government. Last week this bit of Mexican "mañana policy" was suddenly ended by hard-bitten General Joaquin Amaro...
...Mackay radio station at Los Angeles last fortnight went a halting message from the tight little tuna-fishing schooner Santa Amaro, Manuel Rodriguez, Master. The Santa Amaro, lying off Marchena Island, one of the northernmost of the Galapagos group, had exciting news to report. Passing bleak, barren, fresh-waterless Marchena that morning her crew spied a small skiff hauled high on the rocks of the shore. Swinging closer they saw a tall pole and fluttering from it a few limp rags. On shore they found a dead seal with strips of flesh hacked from it, a few bits of iguana...
...dressed in lingerie. There were some baby clothes nearby, a little pile of French money, a German passport issued to Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, No. 211 Avenue Daumesnil, Paris. There was a bundle of letters and photographs, most of them bearing the name of Mrs. Margaret Wittmer. Soon the Santa Amaro was hull down in Mystery...
...hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams have multiplied in the last ten years. Mexico City's best professional baseball team, the Aztecas, is fully as competent as most C league teams in the U. S. Dignitaries like onetime Secretary of War General Joaquin Amaro, General Jaime Quinones, Julio Miller, whose father-in-law is Mexico's Minister to England, play fair polo at their club near Mexico City. The country's boss, Plutarco Elias Calles. prefers poker but he also enjoys riding, golf; he had a set of Bobby Jones clubs with...
...Mexico's leaders are white men. Calles is the illegitimate son of an unknown and a peasant woman. Ortiz Rubio is reputedly three-quarter Spanish, one-quarter descendant of Michoacan Indian kings. President Rodriguez is a halfbreed, speaks Yaqui fluently. Both Cardenas and Amaro are pure Indian. Observers have long noted the virility of the Mexican Indian blood, the emergence of an Indian dynasty in Mexican politics...