Word: gringo
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...faced peons stood in little clumps for hours, looking like bunches of dry cactus blossom in their earthy blues, reds, yellows, talking of the parade of the Señor Henry Wallace. They said that he was of much sympathy, a plougher of ground like themselves, a gringo with the proper sort of gentle eyes. They put too much emphasis on his first name, for he spoke a kind of Spanish and they supposed that like Hispano-Mexicans he used both parents' names, Henry for his father, Wallace after his mother. The bolder among them spoke of having peeked...
...condition, mostly by riding and walking. A Mexican is nothing if he cannot make himself look like part of a horse. Avila Camacho's "highschool" horse Pavo (Peacock) went through his dance steps in the New York horse show last month, and the new President has made many gringo friends by way of his two-goal polo, which is sharpened to the verge of three-goal by clever, tricky play. His favorite polo pony is named Lady Hitchcock, after Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...
...roads (among them sections of the great Pan American Highway). He opened up slack Acapulco as a tourist resort. While his rival Camacho was suppressing Cedillo, Almazán took a handsome cut of the bandit's swag. Now a very rich man who lives in a flashy, gringo-haunted eyrie high above Monterrey, Almazán is tall, heavy but trim from swimming and riding. With his hazel eyes, ruddy cheeks, reddish mustache, and wavy greying hair, he fancies himself as something of a lady-killer. But he is not a mankiller of the old-fashioned Mexican type...
Ideological Flip-Flop. Greatest surprise of all came when Vicente Lombardo Toledano, vociferous tsar of the Communistic C. T. M. (Confederation de Trabajadores de Mexico), suddenly did a complete ideological flip-flop and, after denouncing gringo imperialism a week before, suddenly turned prodemocratic. Addressing the important Latin-American Confederation of Labor, he left his audience goggle-eyed with surprise by declaring, "There was never truer friendship between North American and Latin-American peoples. We Mexicans feel great current cordiality, sympathy and profound friendship uniting us. We must fight fascism to the death and preserve democracy." Amused at his sudden conversion...
...Deal. The future of the Cárdenas revolution depends to a large extent upon paradoxical international relations. Although politically aligned with the democracies, Mexico's economic mess has driven the country into closer economic relations with Japan, Germany and South American countries. Mexico still mortally fears gringo imperialism, whose representatives are again taking advantage of internal conditions to exploit the tour ist trade and mineral industries on the strength of the falling peso. And the Government will slap gringo wrists when it can get away with it. Last fortnight it ordered nationalized thousands of acres...