Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prodigal Son. In the winter of 1926, when the Carnegie Foundation sent an expedition to cooperate with the Mexican Government in exploration and restoration of Chichén-Itzà, greatest Maya city in Yucatan, U. S. archeologists picked up in Mexico City an extraordinary character. Then 28, Artist Jean Chariot was in Mexico partly because his French family had had relatives there even before Maximilian tried to rule Mexico, partly because post-War Paris and Dada were not for him. A solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight...
...work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated, inventive, winning, to many a critic, Chariot's pictures of Mexican laborers and tortilla makers (see cut) were a welcome contrast to the present work of his old friends...
...Like Mexican oil (see p. 61), Mexican art is a commodity in which U. S. citizens take considerable interest. Those who want to get oil out of Mexico are having a tougher & tougher time. Those who want to see or buy Mexican art are having it easier & easier. In San Francisco, Detroit, Manhattan and Hanover, N. H., distinguished murals have been painted by Artists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. Into Mexico City, where there are more & better Mexican paintings, the Inter-American Highway running south from Laredo, Tex., has piped thousands of U. S. tourists since its opening...
Brushing aside an international agreement and overruling a decision of the Mexican Supreme Court rendered year ago, President Lazaro Cardenas last week nationalized by decree 2,000,000 acres of oil lands held largely by foreign concerns in the States of Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas. A sweeping decree, employing Article XXVII of the Constitution, which makes all subsoil wealth the property of the Government, turned over to the National Petroleum Administration some 100,000 acres subleased by Standard Oil Co. of California, 250,000 acres leased by the Richmond Petroleum Co. of Mexico, Standard Oil Co. of California subsidiary...
...Every Mexican President since 1910 has claimed that he was taking land from the rich and "returning" it to the poor. But last week President Cardenas accurately claimed that he has split up more land than all the Presidents of the past 15 years. Some 24,000,000 acres have been divided among Indian, mestizo farmers by President Cardenas since 1934 while only 20,000,000 acres were distributed in the 15 years preceding...