Word: mexican-american
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...southernmost appendix of Texas. He is also a banker, beer baron, oil promoter and lawyer. He went to jail for Federal income-tax evasion in 1936. After he got out, one year later, he began again to stretch his grip beyond his small core of about 5,000 Mexican-American voters in Duval to take in the Democratic machines of several neighboring counties...
...secretary of the local tennis association), demands that his protégés get good marks in conduct and in book-learning both; they may some day be on display at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. Four years ago, the school's problem child was a talented Mexican-American lad of 15 who found both discipline and schoolwork distasteful. He cut classes at high school, finally dropped out altogether. So Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales ceased to be one of the Jones boys...
...nights the mobs of soldiers and sailors had found poor hunting. In long caravans of cabs and private cars they had toured the Mexican sections, armed with sticks and weighted ropes, crashing into movie houses, looking for zoot-suited pachucos, the little Mexican-American youths. But they had found only a few dozen, and not all of them even wore zoot suits. They had broken the jaw of a 12-year-old boy. Said the boy, in the hospital...
Died. Bobby Jones, 25, Mexican-American professional jockey; of pneumonia; in San Ysidro, Calif. In 1933 Jones rode under two contracts, $12,000-per year plus 10% of winnings for the Kilmer Stables, $7,500 plus 10% for Mrs. John Hay Whitney. He rode unsuccessfully for Kilmer Stables, brilliantly for Mrs. Whitney, won, on 63 mounts...
...implications contained in associated press dispatches announcing the termination of the Mexican-American anti smuggling convention are correct the relations between the United States and Mexico are approaching a serious crisis...