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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What regard the natives had for Anglo-Saxon property rights was last week fairly evident. Waving tiny Mexican flags, 200,000 of them paraded in Mexico City to celebrate their "Declaration of Economic Independence," hail the departure of los Gringos from the oil fields. But if President Lazaro Cárdenas enjoyed the parade, he was not amused by the U. S. silver embargo. Seriously he proclaimed to his people: "We must draw together to meet an unexpected problem." Mexico is the world's biggest silver producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Silver-Dollar Diplomacy | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Los Angeles, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...Los Angeles, absent from the White House for the second wedding anniversary in a row, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt broke the monotony of a lecture tour to call on Shirley Temple, who announced, without revealing her reason, that she was soon going to Washington to see the President. Wrote Mrs. Roosevelt in My Day: "I hope she will not delay her visit too long." In Washington, a delegation of Massachusetts Democrats led by State Committeeman Charles Maliotis, who operates three restaurants and owns some real estate in Boston, called on James Roosevelt to ask him to run for Lieutenant Governor next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...holdings which make no profit. Junking of three big dailies was strong evidence of the trend. Lease of two more was confirmation. So was consolidation of the two Hearst news services (Universal and International News), the recent disposal of the unprofitable Hearst radio station KEHE, Los Angeles, and the announcement that some $15,000,000 worth of art objects were for sale. This week Mr. Hearst's plan of liquidation was official fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst Prunes | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Allan Hancock was the browbeaten son of an overbearing dowager who made him house his wife in the back yard of her vast Los Angeles estate. In 1925 he lost his only son, Bertram, in the Santa Barbara earthquake. He turned to mechanics, playing engineer at the throttle of his Santa Maria Valley Railroad engines; to aeronautics, learning to fly and fostering the Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria; to music, with serious and successful study of the cello; to yachting, with what has become a formidable interest in marine biology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wake of the Beagle | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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