Word: conquistadors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the week prior President Trippe had struck another railroad legend from his map of the world's biggest air transport system. Planes had begun to drone in regular service from Vera Cruz, low on the Gulf of Mexico, up to Mexico City, following the old route of Conquistador Cortes, of General Winneld Scott and his U. S. Army...
...CONQUISTADOR-Archibald MacLeish- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). To Octogenarian Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a conquistador retired to his estate in Guatemala, there came from Spain Francisco Lopez de Gomara's account of Cortes' Mexican expedition of 1519. The old lion Bernal was aroused. Who was this fine young Professor de Gomara, to be making charts out of battles and histories out of men? Old Bernal fought those battles, knew those men. He could make them live again-blood, bones, the light in their eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History...
...tennis; she is Neila Anderson (Muriel Kirkland of Strictly Dishonorable, I Love an Actress). Disengaging, she says to him: "What is your name?" With the ineptitude of a musical comedy without music, the scene shifts quickly to a Manhattan dress shoppe, to a Westchester Country club, to "the Conquistador Hotel in Baja California," which means Lower California. In Paris. Bing becomes a tennistar, in Westchester he and Miss Kirkland are bedded, in Mexico they are again thrown together. For some reason not clearly indicated, each has married someone else, probably from theatrical pique...
...from $120,000 was shown last year by big United Hotels Co. of America which operates 20 hotels (the Clifton and the Niagara. Niagara Falls; the King Edward, Toronto; the Durant, Flint, Mich.; the Roosevelt, Manhattan; the Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia; the President, Kansas City, Mo.; El Conquistador, Tucson, Ariz.). Big hotels in receivership include the Hotel White, the Fifth Avenue, the Allerton Houses, Manhattan. Bonds in the Stevens. Chicago, biggest U. S. hotel, last week sold at 25? on $1.* Pierre's, Manhattan, defaulted on bond interest...
...past as a typical Renaissance captain, like the condottiere of Italy, only transplanted into the romantic regions of the New World. Always the hardy soldier, daring and resourceful, he never shirked from deception, cruelty, or pillage. Too often people are prone to see only the gallantry of the Conquistador, without realizing the wreckage he brought upon the beautiful city of Mexico, surrounded by a broad lake filled with floating gardens and stocked with the glorious achievements of Indian art. If the Aztec religion demanded the palpitating hearts of its victims to appease the fury of the Gods, none...