Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican road runner is a long-beaked, shaggy-feathered bird about the size of a partridge. The road runner is death on rattlesnakes, and tall tales are told of its prowess: that it traps its victim in a ring of cactus, hops in and out, pecking holes in the snake's hide, then plants cactus barbs in the wounds until the rattler is as dead as St. Sebastian...
...Mexican Reform Discussed...
According to Dr. Beteta, "the Mexican people are taking possession of their Fatherland." Similar phrases are being marketed, though perhaps in a different sense, in Europe's bourgeois dictatorships. The motives for the manipulation of political symbols and the methods of opinion management in contemporary Italy and Germany are reconsidered by Mr. Harold F. Porter, Jr., in a contribution entitled "Propaganda in the Fascist State...
...pecan pickers took their troubles to Juan Lopez, a naturalized Mexican priest, with strong C. I. O. sympathies. With Father Lopez" approval the International Pecan Shellers Union (a San Antonio local of C. I. O. Cannery Workers) called a mass meeting to plan a strike. Into the meeting to steal the show completely marched Emma Tenayuca. La Pasionaria's Communism was too much for Father Lopez, and he retired from active direction. Not more than 1,000 of 11,000 workers, struck. Soon pickets were parading with signs reading, "El Padre Lopez es un mat Católico...
...true that my son suffered from a chronic intestinal disease," complained Trotsky from his Mexican refuge. "I don't have direct data that the death of L. Sedov is the handiwork of the GPU [Soviet secret police]. . . . At the disposal of the GPU there are very exceptional scientists and technical means, which makes the problem of medical examination very difficult...