Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurley, Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover and a Roosevelt emissary to China and Russia, was running a seesaw race with Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez...
Democrat v. Democrat. Unity is no more evident on the Democratic side. U.S. Senator Dennis Chavez, who is often described as affable, is anything but that toward his running mate, Everett Grantham, nominee for governor. Their feud dates back more than a decade to the occasion on which Grantham, then a U.S. attorney, prosecuted some of Chavez' relatives in a WPA political-influence case. In last spring's primary, Chavez ran one of his own men against Grantham, without success. (Chavez managed to win his own primary over a state senator named "Diamond Tooth" Miller...
Another source of doubt about the outcome of the New Mexico race is the fact that New Mexico's voting population has been infiltrated. For 20 years Senator Chavez' strength has come from his own nationality group, who make up 40% of the state's population. But since New Mexico has 1) become a military and atomic-energy center, and 2) had some widespread modern agricultural development in the southeastern part of the state, a swarm of immigrants from other states has blurred the political picture. Their voting habits are unassayed. One thing they are almost certain...
...working in black screen, exhibited an abstraction that looked rather like a woman's fancy hat. Others had turned to Italy's fawn-colored countryside, painting delicately tinted landscapes and soft, expressionistic pictures of peasants and village priests. A favorite of the show: New Mexican Edward Chavez's flowing study of three white nuns' bonnets set against an abstract Florentine background...
Growled broad-shouldered Jesus Salas Barrazas, who had never forgotten the pistol-whipping that Villa had once given him in a quarrel over a woman: "I would -for 50,000 pesos." Chavez did not have that much cash, but he mused that "collecting money from Villa's enemies to have him killed would be the easiest thing in the world." Within a month a fund of 100,000 pesos was subscribed...