Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although President Cardenas hinted last month that he would not suppress Jews, last week, stimulated by news from Ecuador (see below), anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in Mexico. Mexico City's new Committee for Defense of Mexican Merchants loudly complained to the office of Secretary of Interior Garcia Tellez that: "Most of the 200 Mexicans in the fur business have been displaced by Jews!" Mexico City's conservative Novedades excitedly headlined: "THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HEBREWS IN MEXICO...
Neutral observers in Mexico City judged that President Cardenas and his associates have only just realized what economists have known for months: that his agrarian decrees of the past year have had many disastrous results. Total production of such Mexican staple crops as wheat, corn and cocoa has shrunk sharply partly due to drought, partly to inefficient working of lands divided and parceled out among the peons...
...fourth day, Christmas Eve, thoroughly scared, Spernak and Home managed to steal up to Jack Morgan, fell him with a marlin spike. In the scuffle he went overboard, into the shark-infested waters where he had thrown dead Dwight Faulding. Then, some 500 miles away from home off the Mexican coast, without fuel for the auxiliary engines and a mainsail disabled by storms. the skipperless Aafje turned to drift back...
Sadly Cuba decreed two days' national mourning, dispatched the gunboat Patria for the bodies and a seven-man commission to investigate the freak accident. Promptly Mexico's Congress voted three planes, headed by their army air ace Colonel Roberto Fierro and carrying both Mexican and Cuban flags, to replace Cuba's lost squadron. The flight is due in the U. S. in January and reluctantly its sponsors realized that the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse had probably been brought nearer by misfortune...
...nomad-land was located in Hunan Province in the interior, then in Kiangsi in southeast China. When Chiang Kai-shek's army took Juichin, its capital, in 1934, Soviet China disappeared, only to pop up a year later in the northwest. A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British Columbia-except that the Mexicans would have far better roads for their anabasis...