Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something happened. The motor sputtered, the plane faltered, dived into the river, settled with its nose on the bottom, its tail sticking out of water. The watchers at Boiling Field, including the flier's wife and son, saw it all. Dr. Luis Quintanilla, counselor of the Mexican Embassy, and Naval Attache Manuel Zermeno jumped into automobiles, jounced over fields to the riverbank. Quintanilla and Zermeno flung off their coats, plunged in, swam to the plane, tried to pull Sarabia out. But he was inert, wedged in the cockpit, his head pressed against the instrument panel. When the plane...
...latest reports no definite cause for the crash had been ascertained. But when Mexico City heard the news it was inconsolably angry. A vegetable vendor yelled, "The gringos killed him!" A Mexican newspaper printed dark hints which added up to charges of sabotage. The Mexican Ambassador in Washington called these accusations "imbecile." But in Mexico City a mob of students stoned a U. S. school and a cordon of police was thrown around the U. S. Embassy. And when the U. S. bomber bearing the flier's body reached the Mexican capital, that too was pelted with stones...
...born composer (Rhumba Symphony, Lament for the Stolen) whose work the Philadelphia Orchestra has consistently given first hearings, and who last week, following the orchestra's recent troubles, took over his duties as its latest manager. The bang-up last movement of the concerto is based on two Mexican dance rhythms, the Juarezca and Malague...
...admirers, including the Mexican Ambassador to the U. S. and a posse of his own relatives, rushed out to shake his hand, kiss him, slap his back. For Fran cisco Sarabia had set a new record of 10 hrs. 48 min. for the Mexico City-New York flight, beating the old record (set by the late Amelia Earhart...
...Pancho" Sarabia likes good, quiet clothes and Scotch whiskey, speaks good English, displays the nerveless sang-froid of a proper flier. Born 39 years ago in the little town of Lerdo, he attended Mexican schools, crossed the U. S. border to get a degree at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, went to an automobile school in Kansas City, worked at the Buick plant in Michigan. In 1926 he took a $3 ride with a barnstormer. Next day Pancho started flying lessons and he has never been out of flying for more than three months since...