Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dixon, like two other commissioners, was a member of the old commission that Congress put out of business. ¶Into the White House went Dwight Whitney Morrow with his resignation as Ambassador to Mexico tucked in his pocket. President Hoover asked him to stay to luncheon, talked about Mexican affairs. Not until his resignation was accepted did Republican Senatorial Nominee Morrow purpose to begin his New Jersey campaign...
...years, The Painted Pig is illustrated with 15 color pictures and is dedicated to Constance, youngest Morrow daughter "who helped me buy a painted pig in the market of Cuernavaca." At Mexico City Mrs. Morrow met Artist d'Harnoncourt who showed her his famed collection of 850 Mexican toys. She begged him to write a story about them. Instead he illustrated the book which she wrote. The story: Pita, "a little Indian girl who lived in Mexico between the smoking mountains and the cactus with red flowers," and her brother Pedro go to the market place...
...refute the presumption that upon arrival in the U. S. he will join the jobless and become dependent upon charity. (If the applicant says he has a job promised him, he is automatically barred by the law's "contract labor" restriction.) Application of the "public charge" clause to Mexican immigration has already reduced alien labor entries from that country from an annual average of 56,747 to 6,280. The same method has been used to cut less drastically Canadian labor immigration. ¶ To a $3,000,000 hurricane relief loan sought by Santo Domingo...
Mexico. In the course of air maneuvers from Mexico's famed Valbuena Airport last week, a cardboard village was erected as a target for bombers. Mexican aviators mistook the town of Ixtapalapa for the target, blew up the ranch "El Arenal," the Ixtapalapa Light and Power Co., killed one, wounded...
...roof was ripped off the U. S. legation. The French legation collapsed as did the British, Cuban, Mexican, Spanish. From the flattened insane asylum, lunatics ran howling through the streets...