Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsreaders would have difficulty in learning the who-what-where of the affair. In the U. S. the New York Times would publish dignified front-page headlines-and all the ghastly details. But in Mexico City, used though the people are to blood and violence, the biggest and best Mexican newspaper, El Excelsior, would omit the episode altogether...
...accordance with plans made six months ago by Senator Guggenheim when he gave the Foundation an additional million dollars of endowment, the list includes the first Latin American Exchange Fellows of the Foundation. These new Fellowships were organized first in Mexico and a Mexican Committee of Selection has appointed two Mexican scholars to come to the United States to carry on their studies. At the same time four scholars from the United States will go to Mexico and other countries of Latin America to engage in research. Next Year Latin American Exchange Fellows to come to the United States will...
...Mexico City League, organized three years ago by Mrs. Francis Ranney, wife of a Mexican Light & Power Co. official, with the support of Senora Fortes Gil and Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, is composed of U. S. citizens permanently resident in the Mexican capital. Its lone Mexican member is the wife of a U.S. citizen. Because they were considered transients, Elizabeth and Anne, daughters of Ambassador Morrow, were not admitted. When it applied for membership in the national association, the Mexico City branch was, as is customary, kept waiting two years to test its quality...
Once he made an excursion outside his specialized field, with painful results. Learning to fly in 1917, he left San Diego in an Army plane for Calexico, Calif., unhappily named neighbor of Mexicali, Mexico. The plane was forced down, lost, 50 miles south of the border. U. S. and Mexican troops and civilians searched four days before finding Col. Bishop's companion. He directed the searchers 30 miles to the south where lay Col. Bishop, unable to talk or walk. He had subsisted on two sandwiches, two oranges, radiator water from the wrecked plane...
...days before he had enthusiastically approved a message of Emilio Portes Gil, asking the Governors of all Mexican States to close all gambling houses immediately. Unreceptive were the Governors of Sonora. Lower California, where elaborate casinos attract thousands of U. S. tourists...