Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace, hometown of Senator Tydings, was kicked out of office in apparent reprisal for his support of Senator Tydings. Last week a thoroughgoing purge of other Tydings friends on the Federal payrolls in Maryland was in full sway. Past Postmaster Coy drove his car out to the Susquehanna River bank, put a bullet through his brain...
...much more immediate crisis. The United Press wired from Mexico City: "One can very easily-with figures -prove that Mexico is insolvent. Quotations on the Paris Bourse show that some Tsarist Russian bonds are worth more than those of certain Mexican issues." The gold and silver reserves of the Bank of Mexico were used up last spring trying to keep the Mexican peso worth 28? . It has now crashed to 20? . Mexicans last week tried to find takers who would accept 210 paper pesos in exchange for one 50-peso silver coin...
...industry with President Cárdenas, who hopes that some day everyone in Mexico will have shoes, and once at a public meeting gave away 300 pairs. Last week the output of the Mexican shoe industry was only 30% of normal. Reports from all parts of the Republic showed bank clearings declining, bankruptcies of small businesses increasing. Imports of agricultural machinery, greatly desired by President Cárdenas, have had to be reduced to 20% of normal. Mexico had Depression. And President Cárdenas was last week in greater need of Recovery than of a second term...
...rdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State began to erect numerous irrigation dams and supplementary public works which today sprout half-completed in all parts of Mexico. Education was stressed to teach peons, accustomed for centuries to kiss the hand of local Mexican...
...Paris, Joseph Pacreau, 34, was visiting the polar bears in the Vincennes Zoo. Because there are no bars in the Zoo, only way to see the polar bears is to peer into their pool from a steep rock bank high enough so no bear can stand on its hind legs and claw the customers. While Joseph Pacreau peered, one bear heaved itself awkwardly on to the back of another bear, got hold of Joseph Pacreau's arm, hung on till a keeper arrived and rapped it smartly on the nose...