Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...
...Sell 'em Ben" Smith was close-mouthed as usual, but expansive Francis W. Rickett glowingly described his conference with General Lázaro Cárdenas, the "New Deal" President of Mexico. The issue, according to Briton Rickett, is whether the Fascist Dictators can be kept from hogging Mexican bargain oil and this precious fluid saved for the great Democracies. "My motives," announced Mr. Rickett, "are patriotic...
Last winter Secretary Morgenthau was asked whether he would stop subsidizing the Mexican silver mines in retaliation for prohibitive boosts in Mexican tariffs on U. S. goods. The reply: "We don't mix our silver and other matters...
...come from U. S. oil men. Not until after the day after the announcement did a delegation of U. S. oil men headed by Standard Oil's Walter Clark Teagle formally protest to Secretary of State Hull. The effective pressure came from Britain, whose stake in Mexican oil is larger than that of the U. S. It is the theory of the British Foreign Office that if it is to be prevented, by the Monroe Doctrine, from following its normal policy in dealing with backward countries in such affairs, then the least...
What regard the natives had for Anglo-Saxon property rights was last week fairly evident. Waving tiny Mexican flags, 200,000 of them paraded in Mexico City to celebrate their "Declaration of Economic Independence," hail the departure of los Gringos from the oil fields. But if President Lazaro Cárdenas enjoyed the parade, he was not amused by the U. S. silver embargo. Seriously he proclaimed to his people: "We must draw together to meet an unexpected problem." Mexico is the world's biggest silver producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy...