Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failing to use an official phrase on an application form. C.R.L.A. asked for a hearing, and the welfare agency approved the application and made back payments. C.R.L.A. challenged the constitutionality of complex Internal Revenue Service requirements that are either incomprehensible or impossible to fulfill for Spanish-speaking Mexican-Americans. The IRS not only conceded but also asked Lorenz for help in hiring bilingual employees to explain its requirements...
Primitive Garcia was that folkloric figure, the bright-eyed young idealist who migrates to the U.S. and turns visions into realities. In the nine months following his arrival in Kansas City, Mo., the handsome young Mexican held a steady job as a shipping clerk, be came engaged, and helped his brother put down $500 on a three-room home for themselves, their mother and their 15-year-old sister...
...Artemis, for $350,000, moved in over the garage across the street. Next, in 1963, he sold their Manhattan apartment, took to commuting from his I l l-acre Long Island estate. Meanwhile, his plunges into Latin American airlines had come a cropper. He lost one airline when the Mexican government nationalized it. Even worse was his flyer with Aerovias Panama, a scheduled passenger and freight airline that went bankrupt two years ago, leaving him sole guarantor for bills totaling $499,765.43 owed to a Miami airplane-leasing company...
...Texas. Still, John B. Connally might have given it a try if only his old friend Lyndon Johnson had taken him aside to plead: "John, we need you. Please run again next year." The President, mindful of Connally's virulent unpopularity among the state's sizable Mexican-American population, apparently merely shrugged and said: "John, it's up to you." So John decided to quit. In Texas, where party politics is only slightly more refined than saloon fighting, his decision not to seek re-election was an invitation to a bare-knuckled brawl...
Strike Leader Cesar Chavez, a portly, near-paranoid disciple of Agitator Saul Alinsky, insisted that no Anglos could ever understand the confusion of injustices that his Mexican-American workers had been suffering. Anglo growers maintained that the workers had never had it so good. Both sides were partially right, but when the strikers began firing 4,000 marbles from slingshots and growers started dusting the picket lines with insecticides, right had clearly given way to wrath...