Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calmly did Assistant Secretary Jahncke's immediate predecessor, Theodore Douglas Robinson, take an arrest and confiscation which he underwent last week at Nogales, Mexico. Mexican customs authorities found $320 in Mexican gold coinage among Mr. & Mrs. Robinson's belongings, accused them of smuggling gold out of the country-an act forbidden by presidential decree. Mr. Robinson protested that he was about to have it changed into U. S. money, refused to give up the gold. Whereupon he was arrested, later released. He put the matter in the hands of the local U. S. Consul, crossed the border irate...
...Nation. The Attorney General spoke in broad terms. On both seaboards and along the Mexican border, he said, customs and narcotic squads have been increased, reorganized. In all racket-ridden cities investigators are plodding away at gangsters' bank-accounts and records. A special agent is in Chicago coordinating the work of Prohibition, Narcotics and Industrial Alcohol Bureaus, the Immigration, Coast Guard and Customs Services. All this might have seemed nebulous without the Guzick conviction to give it point. And the same day Guzick was indicted, mounted Customs men had slain two smuggling gangsters, wounded another, in Texas...
...beginning of the season had not beaten anybody except one minor opponent. Instead, scored on by a fluke field goal in the first two minutes, Princeton somehow became for i hr., 19 min. one of the great teams of the U. S. The heroes were the linesmen, led by Mexican-born Capt. Ricardo Mestres, who broke through to drop the great Yale backs, and Quarterback Trix Bennett who played without a rest, who scored the touchdown that put Princeton ahead at the half, who failed by two inches only to get over the first down that would have meant another...
...military adviser to the U. S. delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference; of an intestinal ailment (despite efforts of five members of the National Free Public Blood Donors who flew to him in a Marine corps plane from Philadelphia); in Washington, D. C. A veteran of Spanish-American, Philippine, Mexican campaigns, he served 48 years in the Army, was active until 1920 although he passed the statutory age of retirement...
...Commuted from Death to 20 years imprisonment the sentence passed by a Mexican Court martial upon Private Jose Barajas for killing an officer...