Word: mexicans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sports which most foreigners identify with Mexico are second-rate bullfighting and revolutions. This is a gross injustice. Proud, excitable and much less torpid than they are reputed to be. Mexicans are ardent sportsmen, although they have invented no game of their own. Mexican boxing matches draw big crowds. Pelota (jai alai) gave rise to the game of fronton tennis, played with rackets instead of cestas. Yale's football coach, Reginald Root, got his experience coaching the first Mexico City University team which was good enough last year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams...
...Mexico had the highest 1931 birth rate-28.4 per 1,000 population. Nevada had the lowest-13.2 per 1,000. New Mexico's rate has risen slightly the past several years. Contiguous Arizona has had no general downward trend. Both States have a large Mexican population...
Because Josephus Daniels, genial publisher of the Raleigh (N. C.) News & Observer, was Secretary of the U. S. Navy when that navy bombarded Veracruz in 1914, loud have been the Mexican murmurings against his appointment as Ambassador to Mexico. The murmurings were so loud last week that Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc felt called upon to deny officially that the appointment of Publisher Daniels was in any way displeasing to the Mexican Government...
...Guadalajara Mexican police raided dozens of houses and shops, seized and burned bales of literature demanding the expulsion of Ambassador Daniels by force...
...Calles is the illegitimate son of an unknown and a peasant woman. Ortiz Rubio is reputedly three-quarter Spanish, one-quarter descendant of Michoacan Indian kings. President Rodriguez is a halfbreed, speaks Yaqui fluently. Both Cardenas and Amaro are pure Indian. Observers have long noted the virility of the Mexican Indian blood, the emergence of an Indian dynasty in Mexican politics...