Word: mex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maine 17 3 5 Mass. 698 147 127 Mich. 22 4 6 Minn. 23 6 7 Miss. 18 14 6 Mont. 5 1 1 Nebr. 7 3 3 Nev. 1 0 1 N. H. 21 4 4 N. J. 65 29 19 N. Mex. 3 6 0 N. Y. 220 95 104 N. Dak. 1 0 1 N. C. 2 3 0 Ohio 62 25 22 Okla. 2 1 2 Ore. 4 1 0 Penn. 95 26 22 R. L. 28 9 3 S. D. 1 0 0 S. C. 0 1 0 Tenn. 3 2 1 Texas...
...last week of the Roosevelt tour was made up largely of bold bids for insurgent Republican support of the Democratic ticket. At Lamy, N. Mex. in the station crowd. Governor Roosevelt spotted Republican Senator Bronson Cutting whom he had known "since he wore short pants." The Governor invited the Senator up to the rear platform of his private car. Senator Cutting clambered aboard, shook Governor Roosevelt's hand, waved to the crowd, said nothing. Three days prior Senator Cutting had lost control of the G. O. P. State organization to Albert Gallatin Simms, new husband of Mark Hanna's daughter...
...last summer War Lord Liu was popular with U. S. bluejackets whose ships lay anchored off his port. At the cry (in Chinese) of "The fleet's in!'', smart Liu extorted $100,000 mex. from Chefoo establishments most apt to be patronized by sailors. Pocketing perhaps half this money, Liu nevertheless spent at least $50.000 mex. to improve Chefoo's police force, to push his superb street paving program and to encourage his new Institute of Silk Culture. Liu, frankly a bandit who worked up into the roles of petty statesman and local philanthropist, had only one real fault during...
...Japanese South Manchuria Railway. Several weeks ago Chinese bandits kidnapped Mrs. Pawley (a bride of three months), her two dogs (an Irish setter and an Alsatian) and one Mr. Corkran who calls Mrs. Pawley "Tinko." Last week anxious friends received a grimy ransom note, demanding $100,000 mex. (about $30,000), failing which Mrs. Pawley's and Mr. Corkran's ears would be cut off. Appended was a postscript from Mrs. Pawley...
...Federal Grand Jury indicted Otis Perry Seligman, cashier of the First National Bank of Santa Fe, N. Mex.. for an alleged shortage of $25,941 in his accounts. Said his father. Governor Arthur Seligman, president of the bank, after making good the shortage: "He will have to take his medicine...