Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plutarco Elias Calles, "Iron Man" and onetime President of Mexico, gave his Santa Barbara hacienda, 20 mi. from Mexico City, to the Mexican Agricultural Department for an experimental station. "Iron Man" Calles built his rural retreat five years ago when his first wife, by whom he had nine children, died. At Santa Barbara hacienda last November his beauteous young second wife, by whom he had two children, died. He has not been able to live there since...
...greater power. By nature, training and beard he belongs in the tradition of the earlier rail tycoons. From Rutgers, at 19, he went into railway engineering on Western roads, quit to carry a tripod with the Army Engineer Corps, quit that to survey a right of way for the Mexican National Railway. In 1883 he went to the Pennsylvania and began to make himself known. He could speedily dig out traffic stalled in snowdrifts; he reconstructed in short order a section of the main line washed out by the Johnstown flood. At 38 he was jumped over a dozen heads...
...Mexican Government circles El Universal Grafico's "warning" was pooh-poohed, but U. S. residents of Mexico City called it significant, a timely echo of popular Mexican fears...
...Mexico broke off diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, had not resumed them up to last week, partly because of Mexican suspicions that the Nicaraguan Government has been a set-up propped by U. S. Marines. Now that the props are gone, Mexico, according to El National, may soon find it possible to recognize the 100% Nicaraguan Government of newly inaugurated Nicaraguan President Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa...
...published, running from J to L, beginning with Soldier William Jasper, who recovered and remounted the shot-down flag in the face of a British bombardment at Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) in 1776. It ends with Thomas Oliver Larkin, last U. S. consul at Monterey, capital of Mexican California. Between are 674 giants and lesser mortals who made U. S. history. Chief giant: Thomas Jefferson, allotted 37 columns. Others: John Jay, John Paul Jones, Robert Marion LaFollette...