Word: cortese
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Cortes sent one of his lieutenants to Taxco in 1522 to dig silver out of the Indians who were digging it out of the surrounding mountains. But Taxco's first big silver boom did not occur until 1717, when a very smart young man named Jose de la Borda...
Cartoonists had a field day. One drew a man raising his hat as he walks past a church (says his wife: "Don't do that; they might think you're a Senator"). Another showed a maid telling an early-morning caller, "Oh, no, the Senator's not...
Died. Dr. Julian Besteiro, 70, Socialist Speaker of the Spanish Cortes 1931-33 and last Foreign Minister of the Spanish Republican Government, who stayed behind in Madrid to surrender the city to the rebels; in Carmona prison, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for "prolonging the war."
Perfidy and avarice have been the two dominating forces ever since Hernando Cortes beached his boat at Veracruz in 1519, planted his cross in the sand and pronounced his classic demand of the natives: "Gold! For we suffer of a disease in the heart that only gold can cure."
Cortes tricked the Aztec Montezuma by posing as Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god, and then methodically subdued the Indians with blunderbuss and broadsword. For the next 200-odd years New Spain, ruled from Mexico City but extending for a time as far as South Carolina, experienced what some historians have...