Word: hacendado
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...Mexican state of Sonora were drowned in blood so that their lands, fertile and rich in minerals, could be sold without an unpleasantness to various U.S. capitalists ... On the Andean slopes near Bogota, the Indian peon must still give a day's work without pay to get the hacendado's permission to farm his own plot on moonlit nights...
...mutter that they will refuse to work the four days for the hacienda unless they get more for it-and will not be evicted. When Luna had 18 squatters arrested recently for trespassing, the hacienda's peasant union, through their lawyer in Cuzco, got the men freed. Hacendado Luna does not see any need for agrarian reform. But at peasant meetings in the Andes, a new shout-"A la cubana!" (the Cuban way) -is heard echoing through the chill mountain night...
...Mexican capitalist, unlike the old hacendado (landholder), is a self-made man. Take Ruiz Galindo. At 48 he is worth about $5,000,000; he started as a produce dealer, at 18 had his own small prospering business in tropical Cordoba. In his twenties he was star salesman in Mexico City for General Fireproofing Co. of Youngstown, Ohio, and sold the firm's largest order in Mexico: material for Mexico's West Point-Colegio Militar de Mexico...
Early in My Life With Caroline Husband Colman confides his problem to his audience in one of the theater's oldest pieces of business, the aside. Discovering his wife rendezvousing with a curly-headed hacendado (Gilbert Roland), he invites his audience to see what his life with Caroline ("Bless her little heart") has been...
...injunction was refused to the Longa Co. and Hacendado Alberto Danadieu: who sought to stop further land expropriation in the State of Sonora. Pudgy-cheeked President Cardenas made plans to supervise personally the land-division in Sonora, where are located the haciendas of such newsmaking names as Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the John Hays Hammond estate, the Richardson Co. of Arizona...