Word: cuernavaca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration will lean toward more drastic enforcement of Mexico's radical expropriation laws ("Land to the peons!") and ease up a bit on the Church. Taking no chances, pious mobsters showered Canabal with stones when they caught his motor car leaving the home of ex-President Calles at Cuernavaca, screamed "Curse Canabal! Curse...
...country's boss, Plutarco Elias Calles. prefers poker but he also enjoys riding, golf; he had a set of Bobby Jones clubs with him at Ensenada where he was vacationing last week. President Rodriguez, an even more enthusiastic golfer, recently helped to arrange a splendid new course at Cuernavaca but golf is not yet Mexico's longest suit in sport. Foreigners almost invariably win Mexican championships. The term "caddy" in Mexican most often means a tennis ball-boy. There were two onetime caddies on the Mexican Davis Cup team which last week played in the American Zone Davis...
Married. Mrs. Ernestina Calles Robinson, daughter of General Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president of Mexico and Minister of War; and Jorge Pasquel, merchant; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), friend of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker; from Edward Duryea Dowling, cinema dialog director whom she had married secretly in Manhattan's Carlton House 33 days prior (TIME, March 2 ), from whom she became estranged two days later (TIME, March 16); in Cuernavaca, Mexico, after "a day or two" residence. Grounds: "cruelty, personal violence, refusal to provide maintenance." Said the New York Daily Mirror: "An attempt at suicide preceded Miss Compton's marriage . . . Dowling was an interlude . . . from which the actress emerged when it reached the ears of the man she really...
...painted clay pig bank. Pita has a pig, Pedro wants one like it. Pancho, the toyman (drawn from a mason who worked on the Morrow weekend abode at Cuernavaca) has no pigs, tries to sell them instead straw horses, jumping jacks, grotesque clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing...