Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to collect income taxes on the Mexican income of many U. S. firms which do business by direct mail or by traveling representatives (firms which maintain no offices in Mexico), the Mexican Government issued an order to its consuls all over the world: in addition to the previous 5% customs prepayment, let consuls collect a 3% income-tax prepayment, on the invoice value of every shipment granted a visa...
...Montgomery Ward, U. S. Steel, Du Pont, Sherwin-Williams and International General Electric, and other firms with Mexican customers, the new tax was a new headache. It fails to make any allowance for the fact that some transactions result in losses. It seriously affects contracts already made with Mexican buyers without expectation of the added cost. It will also result in double taxation for any concern which maintains an office in Mexico, since such offices already pay income taxes. According to the new decree, these offices will be entitled to a rebate, but U. S. exporters sniffed that the chance...
While studying under Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, Manhattan Artist Elizabeth Ely de Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made...
Finishing touch to "curing me of my epoch" was added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight...
This week genial U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, fresh from a conference with President Roosevelt, informed the Mexican Government that "Washington is interested in the situation confronting the petroleum companies." Fear that the U. S. $200,000,000 oil interests, the U. S. $500,000,000 mining interests will be squeezed out by taxation, higher wage demands, has been haunting American industrialists in Mexico during Cardenas' term. Taking the first important formal step affecting U. S.-Mexican relations in four years, the Ambassador warned that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...