Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they got into little scrapes with the police or the townspeople: when Con Shepherd tried to jump his horse over the drummer in the band, and landed in the bass drum; when Grant knocked down a Mexican policeman. But such pranks hurt nobody; the Americans were popular, President Porfirio Diaz maintained order in the land. The Shepherd girls grew up and married Americans. The boys went to work: Alex in charge of the power plant; Grant in charge of one mine; Con of another...
...something happened. To this day Grant believes that Diaz was a good president for Mexico, whose excesses, such as shooting arrested men without trial, were necessary to suppress lawlessness. A "renegade labor-union cast-off" tried to organize the miners, but older workmen, working with Grant's friend, the chief of police, soon ran him off. Why, then, did so many of the miners join Pancho Villa? Why did a fault-finding stockholder in the U. S. protest that there were too many sons, sons-in-law, nephews and brothers-in-law on the payroll? Why did a greenhorn...
...wages be paid outside of Spain directly to his bride, Mrs. Edith Rogers Dahl, who used to appear with Crooner Rudy Vallee's band. After signing, Pilot Dahl was sent to Mexico, provided there with a passport showing him to be a Spaniard by the name of Hernandez Diaz. Bridegroom Dahl sailed for Spain and Bride Dahl settled down in a French hotel at Cannes where she registered as Senora Edithe Diaz...
Correspondents of the United Press at Gibraltar and of the Associated Press at Lisbon reported last week that beauteous, copper-haired Spanish Cinemactress Rosita Diaz, who once sat naked in a bathtub for nine hours during a Hollywood film-shooting, had been shot as a radical spy by the Whites. This made big news. Rosita's picture was splashed over the world's press. At week's end a Hollywood friend sent a cautious cablegram to Segovia saying she had heard that Rosita had been in "a serious accident." Back came a cablegram signed "Rosita" saying...
...minimum of bad feeling and bloodshed. To that end he last week proclaimed an amnesty for 10,000 exiles who have been convicted of some 4,000 crimes against the Revolution since 1920, invited them to get back into Mexico and behave. Many were dead; others, like Dictator Porfirio Diaz' son Felix, are back already. The invitation did not include ex-Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, now sojourning in California, who was never charged with a specific, forgivable crime. Just as good feeling began to run high an incident in Orizaba, State of Veracruz, made President Cárdenas jumpier...