Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Mexican Government Petroleum Administration was swapping oil for newsprint with Nazi Germany. A very good reason for loudly proletarian President General Lázaro Cárdenas' Government failing to broadcast this news for home consumption was that simultaneously in Mexico City was convening the first Latin-American Labor Conference, which opened with many a sharp cry against "Nazi and Fascist penetration of Latin America." Host to the conference was ascetic, sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only a few months ago in Manhattan, Laborite Lombardo had professed himself certain...
...Lewis, M. Jouhaux and Sr. González Peña took no active part last week as Sr. Lombardo Toledano and the other Latin Americans proceeded to found a Federation of Latin American Workers, which adopted a constitution, made Mexico City its headquarters, provided that its president must reside there and then elected Vicente Lombardo Toledano first president. In flattering compliment to President Cárdenas, who last week won for Mexican Federal employes the right to strike, the constitution borrowed almost the exact words of a recent Cárdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task...
...makes friends with the elephants and stables his mongoose, Rikki. In his first picture, Sabu memorized the sound of English words, spoke them without understanding. Now, having packed a lifetime's schooling into two years, he not only speaks and reads English but can read French and Latin as well, hopes to get into Oxford in three years. Last week, Sabu sailed on the Aquitania for his first visit to the U. S., in the course of which he will attend the première of Drums, call on Mrs. Roosevelt, meet Shirley Temple in Hollywood...
Franklin Roosevelt and Lazaro Cardenas are "two great statesmen who have appeared to extend a hand to labor," keynoted John L. Lewis at the opening session in Mexico City this week of the Latin American Labor Congress. "Mexico today is going forward in the same way as the United States because it has a great leader who believes in the rights and welfare of the common people...
...discourage weekend visiting, The High School has classes on Saturday, a holiday each Monday. The school is proud of its athletes and of its scholastic record. Sacred studies and spelling study (until a student's spelling is letter-perfect) are required every day, and Latin is a pre scribed course. Students are carefully ushered in small classes (12 to 15) through a rigid classical curriculum. Last year 35 of the school's 231 boys averaged 90 or better in the school examinations. Episcopal High School scholars make an impressive showing at University of Vir ginia, Princeton, Harvard...