Word: gringo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Service Only. Such invitations from gringo-distrusting, Catholic Mexico are high testimony to the special approach of the Quakers. Good will, rather than relief, is the prime purpose. The committee furnishes personnel only; the units make a special point of handing out no supplies. And local Mexican authorities -not the Norteamericanos-decide what the volunteers will do and how they will do it. Their activities are bossed by Mexicans and carried out by Mexican methods, however old-fashioned they may seem by U.S. standards. As in all Friends Service Committee undertakings, religion is manifested in deed rather than word...
...Juan Burham told Guayaquil police, "until the North American soldiers came to Salinas." After that, sales doubled. At one time the integrated farm-to-market Burham system had produced around 900 smokes a day, most of them inhaled by U.S. troops in Ecuador. Then, about the time the gringo customers were ordered home, Orley Burham died. Rosa, whom he had married two years before his death, tried to carry...
Mexican Catholic clergy tend to view the weak Protestant competition as a U.S. plot for domination of Mexico, financed by lavish quantities of gringo gold. Said one priest last week: Protestant missionaries, who have been dispensing medicine, clothing, etc., are like the British missionaries in Ireland during the famine of 1847 who bought Catholic souls, with soup. They are all metiches - people who stick their noses into other people's business. "In the U.S. you have 80 million people who profess no religion at all. If the Protestants want to save souls, why don't they...
Mexico is such a lively vacation center that tourism, at $50,000,000 a year, is the country's fourth largest industry. During the war, Mexico got a share of the fancy carriage trade which once dawdled along the Riviera. Now the prewar, wholesome, camera-slung gringo is driving down the splendid 750-mile highway from Laredo, Tex. to Mexico City, to find that spiraling inflation has changed the land of cheap living he remembered. Nightclubs charge a $6 minimum, simple lunches cost...
...wanted machinery to manufacture cement ("Get us that machinery and we will erect a statue of you in concrete"). Said a Panamanian who heard one of the Vice President's speeches: "He speaks our language very well, and the unusual thing about him is that, unlike the average gringo who chooses the simplest words, Wallace uses ten-dollar words...