Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cleveland's show, "Sculpture of Our Time," included 103 pieces by 60 artists, borrowed from museums, galleries, private collectors and the sculptors themselves. One of the weightiest pieces in the exhibition was Head of an Indian, done in 3,300 Ib. of Mexican onyx by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles. Its transportation from St. Paul, Minn, indicated the ambitiousness of the Museum's show. Other monumental statues were a bronze by the late, great Gaston Lachaise, Standing Woman, and an already famed piece in marble by William Zorach, Mother and Child...
...collection of economic plants and plants products was also increased by important additions, among 450 specimens of Chinese food, drug, fibre and timber plants; a number of Egyptian plants; a number of Mexican rosaries composed of ornamental seeds; a series of plant materials from Oklshoma associated with the peyote ceremony of the Kiowa Indians; specimens of resin-yielding plants and resinous products from the Federated Malay States; and specimens from Burma...
When Mexico reverted to the old subsoil law in 1917 there was a gush of argument whether the law should be retroactive. But Ambassador Dwight Morrow in 1928 sewed up the rights of U. S. companies in an agreement with President Calles which has since been upheld by the Mexican Supreme Court. Mexico's Presidency is now occupied by New Dealing Lázaro Cárdenas. Fortnight ago, after six months of labor trouble in the oil fields which has threatened the stability of the Mexican Government, President Cárdenas disregarded the Calles-Morrow agreement, expropriated some...
...present Mexican oil crisis began last May with a nation-wide strike by oilworkers for more pay and shorter hours. Since foreign oil companies pay 7% of Mexico's taxes, a prolonged strike threatened Government finances as well as those of the foreign oil companies. After two weeks, therefore, President Cárdenas intervened, commissioned a group of Government experts to investigate. Two months later in a 3,250-page report the experts ordered 17 foreign companies to raise wages some $7,000,000 (TIME, Aug. 16). Contending that the report was "grossly unfair," the companies refused...
...wage increase previously ordered. Immediately the oilmen got together, announced that they would "suspend operations" and abandon the country rather than pay it. It was at that point that President Cárdenas, who has plenty of resolute and resourceful Indian blood in his veins, called in representatives of Mexican Eagle Oil Co., affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell which already controls 60% of Mexican oil production. He handed them an agreement promising them full control of the Poza Rica field, 7,700 of whose 13,000 proven acres Eagle already holds. In return Eagle agreed to give Mexico...