Word: durango
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexican-Americans constitute the second largest disadvantaged minority in America (TIME, April 28), and working from a concern rooted deep in his Texas past, Lyndon Johnson last week appointed Armando Rodriguez, 46, as coordinator of the new Mexican-American Affairs Unit of the U.S. Office of Education. Born in Durango, Mexico, and a former California educator, Rodriguez will supervise programs aimed at easing the lot of both braceros (Mexican farm workers) and pochos (a self-description used by native-born Mexican-Americans that the more assimilated consider pejorative), as well as innovating programs to dissolve the cultural barrier that keeps...
...faded, and most Mexicans have romanticized Pancho's legend to make him out as an amiable ruffian who fought for the poor and humiliated the Yanquis. Former Dorados who organized as lobbying associations have pointed to his more glorious exploits. Last summer the Government named a dam in Durango after him. So it was only logical for someone to raise the question of why Pancho's name was not in gold letters in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, next to those of Zapata and the other official patriots. When legislation to engrave his name came...
...Mexico's 33rd President, and Bartolome de las Casas, the Dominican "Protector of the Indians.") In 1913, Rebel Leader Pancho Villa raided the bank's Torreón branch and took more than 150,000 pesos; later that year the revolutionary forces of Victoriano Huerta robbed the Durango branch of 100,000 pesos. A few years later, when the bank's entire executive staff refused to hand over all its gold and silver bars to President Venustiano Carranza, he jailed them and virtually closed the bank for five years...
...Current Problems in U.S. Journalism" (Loeb), with Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships; Arthur A. Ballantine '36, Publisher of Durango Herald; Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. '36, Publisher of St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Phillip 8. Weld '36, President of New York Herald-Tribune European edition...
...public commitment out of Kennedy-leaning Governor Herschel Loveless; so enraged were some delegates that a few fell prey to the sweet-talk of Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird, when they came calling. In Colorado a critical casualty turned up at the delegates' convention in Durango, where Kennedy forces ganged up on Lyndon Johnson Supporter Edwin C. Johnson, who wanted to be named to the delegation. A three-time Governor and a thrice-elected U.S. Senator, Ed Johnson had suitable credentials, but he left the hall weeping over the thrashing he got. "It was the ruthless Kennedy...