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...nationalists were unmoved. Said Dr. Alejandro Quijano, president of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua: "My heart grieves at these dangers. New words, new ideas we welcome. But we want no bastard words from beyond our borders...
...Central airport blocked by armed airport guards. Reason: the Ministry of Communications and Public Works had refused Braniff's application for five air routes, had canceled the temporary permit under which the company had been operating in competition with Pan Am's affiliate, Compaña Mexicana de Aviación, S. A. Said the ministry: a "technical study" had shown that present service by C.M.A. in Mexico was entirely adequate, therefore no competition was necessary...
...March 11 number of your magazine an item appears concerning the Liga Mexicana de Baseball (Mexican Baseball League), of which I am president, and concerning me in particular. . . . I am writing you to explain a few ideas expressed by the scoundrel Rogers Hornsby during his short stay in Mexico...
...having formed his own distributing firm, Distribuidora Mexicana S.A., he began to manufacture steel office furniture. His capital was small but he got enough advance orders to start production. Salesmanship pulled him through a bad fire too; he sold new customers on furniture borrowed from old ones...
...Great Liberator. Jorge promised more: "I have another very big surprise for the boys in the United States . . . it will happen very soon." It did. Next day the Pasquels, who own two of La Liga Mexicana's eight teams and control the others, rustled off with second-baseman George Hausmann and two other New York Giants. (Hausmann's wife, who had wondered where they would live in overcrowded Manhattan, was encouraged by Pasquel's promise of housing in Mexico.) Next day Pasquel proudly announced that he had signed the Brooklyn Dodgers' No. 1 catcher, Mickey Owen...