Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feature of the third corrida of the season at the Comayaguela Fair, 50 mi. from Tegucigalpa was the appearance of one Ramiro Dominguez, second-rate Mexican matador. Major Geyer attended in a ringside seat. Attempting to execute a difficult passade, Matador Dominguez became entangled in his cape, slipped, fell prone before the charging animal. Without an instant's hesitation Major Geyer drew his service pistol, dropped the bull with a single bullet between the eyes. The air was rent with cheers for quickwitted Tauricide Geyer, mingled with boos for slovenly Tauromach Dominguez...
...Mexico's three classes of people-the old aristocrats, the new middle class and the peons-are all lovely people and have none of the much maligned banditry about them. We up here can scarcely imagine how lovely the Mexican people are," said Elizabeth Morrow, eldest daughter of New Jersey's Dwight Whitney Morrow, last week addressing 199 women members of the Englewood, N. J. Methodist Episcopal Church...
...Latin American republics in the nine-teenth and twentieth centuries is especially important for an understanding of their background. While an intimate acquaintance with all of the periodical upheavals in some twenty states is not very interesting for the general student, the religious and agrarian policy of the Mexican government, the interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, and commercial relations with South and Central America are of international interest, and have been appearing frequently in the press during the last few years. Professor Haring's lectures and the assigned reading, though it is uneven in merit, are sufficient to give...
...heading FACTORS IN THE CURRENT DEPRESSION, these statements appear: "Agricultural overproduction existed before the business depression began. . . . Agriculture's added difficulties this year are attributable largely to conditions outside the agricultural industry." Also there are reports of the Department's fight with Japanese beetles, pink bollworms, Mexican fruit flies, pinetip moths, European cornborers...
...Dwight Whitney Morrow told members of Manhattan's Women's City Club how, when they were in Mexico, her husband had censored her recently published children's book. The Painted Pig. Because its characters were little Mexicans, cautious Ambassador Morrow changed the sentence "but generals are brittle and easily broken" to read "but glass generals are brittle. . . ." When he had perused the book he sent it for consideration to the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs...