Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girl of the Rio (RKO-Radio) is a passable little border romance made from a play called The Dove, in which the late Holbrook Blinn distinguished himself eight years ago. It is about a Mexican millionaire (Leo Carrillo) who, to facilitate his abduction of a cabaret girl (Dolores Del Rio) has her sweetheart (Norman Foster) jailed and removed from the country. All this is done with a superfluity of Mexican accent by Carrillo and Del Rio, and reiterations of clean young Americanisms by Foster, who encourages Del Rio by saying "Be game, kid." In the play these exaggerations made...
...championship Mexican basketball team, which was scheduled to play here today, will not appear in Cambridge it was announced by the Harvard Athletic Association yesterday. The home town, strength, and general identity of the Mexican quintet has always been clouded in mystery hereabouts, the only definite statement available on the playing of the team being that it had won 37 out of 39 contests in the last two years...
Prior to the Morrow truce this incontestable power was manifested in Mexico by demonstrations which took the form of guerrilla warfare between Mexican troops and persons who shouted as their battle cry "Long live Christ the King!" (TIME, July...
Archbishop Pascual Diaz further contended that the law is in violation of the peace between Church and State arranged by the late Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow (TIME. July 1, 1929), under which Catholic churches (closed throughout Mexico for three years) were reopened. The peace agreement unquestionably authorized Mexican State legislatures to limit the number of their clergy, and six States have already done so; but Archbishop Pascual Diaz contended that the right to limit does not extend to the Federal Congress of Mexico...
...Australian horse Pharlap was entered this year, is the richest-$150,000 -horse race in the world. James Nugent Crofton barked his announcement sadly last week. "There's no longer any use of our trying to kid ourselves. . . . Shortage of money has been apparent. . . . The announcement that the Mexican Government would increase taxes on gate receipts was the final blow. . . ." Agua Caliente's racing deficit since the season started a month...