Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Provost Marshal: Winfield Scott, U. S. commander in the Mexican...
...hours later a band of laborers, fired with their President's pronouncements, raided a meeting of the antiSemitic, anti-Communist Mexican National Vanguard. Shots were fired, several were wounded, including Vanguard President Ruben Moreno Padres, who was knifed in the back. Rightist sympathizers blamed the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers) for the clash. Faced with the accusation, Confederation Secretary-General Vicente Lombardo Toledano coyly attributed the attack to "some people passing by who heard the Vanguard attacking the Government and rushed to its defense...
...given $700,000), emerged from New York Law School in 1908. Under Mayor McClellan he got into municipal government as assistant corporation counsel, later became Commissioner of Accounts. He first joined the Rockefellers as an investigator of European police systems. In 1916 Newton Diehl Baker sent him to the Mexican border, recalled him after U. S. entry into the World War to take charge of training camp activities. After the Armistice President Wilson appointed him Undersecretary of the League of Nations, a post from which he resigned after the Senate refused to ratify the League Covenant...
...University of Nashville at 14, William Walker was successively surgeon, lawyer, journalist before he was 29. In that year, having absorbed as much as he could hold of the expansionist propaganda then parading as the "manifest destiny'' of the U. S., he decided to colonize the Mexican state of Sonora. Short of men and food, still shorter on experience, the expedition lasted through seven months of skirmishes, mutinies, desertions, marauding and general futility. Relieved to get out alive, Walker limped across the U. S. border with 34 survivors, surrendered to U. S. authorities. On trial in San Francisco...
...Once Mexicans went to church on Sunday. Now they parade the streets, cheer speeches by their labor leaders. One fine Sunday recently, 25,000 CTMists (Confederation of Mexican Workers) assembled before the National Palace in the capital to hear their labor boss, large-eared, dapper Vincente Lombardo Toledano, CTM Secretary General. Shouting, waving his arms, Orator Toledano hurled imprecations at the enemies of labor. The Mexicanos were enthusiastic, but not enough to suit Toledano. Dramatically pausing, the fiery-eyed labor leader leaned forward on the rostrum to grip his listeners once more. He was going to tell them something...