Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British owners of the $400,000,000 oil properties recently expropriated by the Mexican Government. President Roosevelt has made clear that under his good neighbor policy Mexico need not pay anything like as much as $400,000,000 in compensation, but the British Government take a much sterner view, and Mexico needs to borrow heavily to finance Government operation of her oil lands. Best argument to use on prospective lenders is evidence of a desire to pay and thus last week Señora Cárdenas and other politicos' wives donated table silver and trinkets (see cut). Wealthy...
Mexico City estimating the take at less than 100,000 pesos ($25,000) was immediately followed by another estimating it at more than 300,000 pesos ($75,000). Meanwhile, Mexico's Second Federal District Court handed down a decision that when the 18,000 Mexican petroleum workers staged their uprising and seized the oil lands for the Mexican Government, this was equivalent to their having been discharged by the former U. S. and British owners. Judge Ignacio Martinez Alomia handed down at Mexico City last week a blanket decision that the former employers of the 18,000 workers...
Twenty years ago Carleton Beals landed in Mexico City. He had "youth, a good physique, two university degrees," but no money, and his clothes were in rags. Since then he has witnessed four Mexican revolutions, once taught military English to Carranza's staff, lectured on Shakespeare to the women of Mexico City's American colony, was held incommunicado by a Mexican general for an unflattering article, is now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America...
...with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot to recover a million dollars worth of Tsarist jewels which he had lost to a double-crossing German revolutionist in Haiti. Pugilist Jack Johnson, a favorite of the carousing Mexican generals, gave Beals a $20 donation to start a literary magazine. Mike Gold disappointed Beals by giving up poetry to become a Communist columnist. D. H. Lawrence, whose genius Beals admitted, disgusted him by his neurotic social behavior...
...last half of Beals's autobiography describes a three-year tour of Europe, his relations with Ambassador Morrow, the breaking off of Mexican-Soviet relations, challenges the truth of many a story told by Author Beals's fellow journalists. Typical is his version of how it happened that the Nicaraguan rebel Sandino was equipped with Russian rifles. They were manufactured, says Beals, in the U. S. for Kerensky, whose government fell before they could be shipped. The rifles were then shipped to Calles, who sent them on to Sandino merely as a spiteful...