Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago. The four Brothers Maxwell have a standing challenge to any other foursome of one family, or any foursome of the publishing business. Life's Clair Maxwell has a strong personal opinion of the new ball. He calls it a cross between a ping-pong globule and a Mexican jumping bean...
...father's New York American, William Randolph Hearst Jr. appointed Eugene Forker, lately advertising director of Hearst's International Magazine Co. Inc. Publisher Forker broke in as a cub on the Los Angeles Herald in 1908, later serving as International News Service correspondent on the Mexican border, working on various papers about the U. S., returning to the Hearst fold in 1917 as editor of Harper's Bazaar. ¶Economist Henry Parker Willis, with the New York Journal of Commerce for 30 years, resigned the editorship which he had held since 1919. Reason: "Clashes of opinion" with...
...sent him to ascertain the garrison strength of Mexico City. General Butler was with the fleet at Vera Cruz. "So one night I went over the side and rowed ashore. After various experiences I landed in Mexico City as an American capitalist seeking to invest money in some substantial Mexican properties. After inspecting all the water works, electric light plants, transit lines and gas works, I noticed two forts overlooking the city. . . . I chased a butterfly and managed to look it all over before the soldiers ordered me out. The second fort was inspected in the same manner...
...Then I obtained a job in a railway office as an accountant. . . . The President of Mexico, Huerta, was afraid to trust Mexicans to guard him, so he employed Cubans, and I met one in the railway office. I told him I was an American Department of Justice agent and was after a murderer from Ohio, who I was sure was in the Mexican army. Then he helped me some by showing me several garrisons...
...train entered the outskirts of Vera Cruz, I saw two Mexican secret service men across the aisle watching my bunk. . . . I headed for the rear in my underwear as though I was going to wash. Then I slipped from the train and dressed under a box car. When I reached the American consulate I left my maps and went out to cable Mrs. Butler I was safe. . . . I learned later that they had spent two weeks dragging the bay as they felt sure I had fallen overboard. But I was restored to the Navy list and that ended that little...