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Born on the border at Brownsville, Holland learned Spanish as a boy from Mexican-American playmates, took his law degree from the University of Texas and practiced in San Antonio until 1942. Then he joined the Foreign Service Auxiliary in the Mexico City embassy, serving as a special assistant to Ambassador George Messersmith. Among his tasks: blacklisting firms dealing with Axis countries. In 1945 he joined B.B.A. & S. in Houston and established the firm's Mexican affiliate, which now employs 16 bilingual lawyers mainly concerned with setting up and financing mining, farming, insurance, import-export, banking and oil companies...
...name given her as a baby by her family's cook, who said: "Lawd, she's as purty as a little lady-bird." -The election produced a favorite political story in Texas which tells about a Mexican-American who found his friend Paco sitting on a curbstone, weeping: Friend: What troubles thee, Paco? Paco: My old father was here Saturday, and he did not come...
...some of whom are alleged to be Communists -filming a semi-documentary about miners. The picture, Salt of the Earth, is sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (ousted from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated), and the cast is composed largely of Mexican-American miners and their families from the Silver City region (TIME...
...schoolteacher from the little (pop. 5,000) mining town of Silver City, N.Mex. sat down and wrote a letter to Screen Actors Guild President Walter Pidgeon. A group of Mexican-American miners and their families, the teacher reported, were hard at work nearby on a semi-documentary movie. The film was being sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, which was ousted from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. Director of the picture: Herbert Biberman, one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten" (TIME, May 31, 1948). Director's assistants: Paul Jarrico and Paul...
Worrying about the Mexican-American amateur actors, the Silver City schoolteacher wrote: "I cannot bear to see a minority group . . . used . . . Please help and advise me how to do my duty." The news of the project was all over Hollywood last week. Film groups were demanding a federal investigation, and it looked as if they would get action...