Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since President Manuel Azaña of Spain was almost hourly expected to flee from Madrid, the Mexican Congress last week sent a message of sympathy addressed "to the President of Spain wherever he may be." This arrived as the President was sitting in his small office at the Palacio National in Madrid, declaring that "The Spanish Republic will maintain political and religious liberty!" The Spanish Republic was actually at its last gasp and the President's wife had fled to the seaport of Alicante, haven for refugees from Madrid. There she was taking care of child victims...
...Mexico City, citizens were horrified to read that they have been eating hot tamales in which the tender meat was the flesh of Mexican babies. Consuelo Segura, 30, confessed to kidnapping 326 babies which she sold to one Manuela Frias, wife of a petty government employe, who said she eked out her husband's meager pay by murdering the infants and converting their flesh into tamales...
...STONES AWAKE-Carleton Beals- Lippincott ($2.50). The long, descriptive, awkwardly-written chronicle covering the affairs of a beautiful, sympathetic Mexican peasant girl, Esperanza, from the Diaz regime of 1910 to the present. Her adventures include two love affairs, widowhood, direct or indirect participation in many a revolution...
...jostled London bobbies outside the Adelphi Theatre, behind the curtain the milling cast of Trans-atlantic Rhythm threatened a walk-out unless Producer James Paul ("Jimmy") Donahue Jr., 23-year-old 5-&-10? heir, paid their back salaries. Though she claimed she was owed $7,250 herself, up sprang Mexican Actress Lupe Velez, crooned Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life to the fretful chorines, persuaded them to put on the $110,000 revue without pay. The show...
Thus a major U. S. playground was belatedly recognized as a major province of the Church. Southern California is historically dear to Rome. In 1769, Franciscan Father Junipero Serra with 75 Spanish soldiers and a gang of Mexican muleteers journeyed 900 mi. overland from Lower California to the Pacific, which they reached at the sandspit of San Diego. On Aug. 2, they forded a shallow river among sunburnt hills, discovered a village of unpromising heathens, named it for the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels and pushed on. Few years later the glory of God was attested...