Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Dallas Exposition comes right on top of two World's Fairs, Chicago's and San Diego's. Dallas stole their thunder. The Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but not quite so modernistic and spiced with a Mexican flavor. Indirect lighting on a grand scale is provided. The approach (admission 50?) is past a 300-ft. lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas Building which will become a permanent historical building. Other...
...spread to neighboring states and is seriously depleting the South's supply of its most popular game bird. Quail are trapped by farmers, bought by racketeers who sell them in violation of State and Federal laws to breeding firms and shooting preserves as "field-bred" or "im-ported Mexican" birds. A furtive and elusive business, this rural racket has been fought for years with little success by the Department of Justice...
...changed hands there last year, giving it ninth place in the list of registered exchanges. Most active stock last year was Carnegie Metals, which has nothing to do with steel. The company owns gold and silver mines in Mexico. Another Pittsburgh favorite is San Toy Mining, which also owns Mexican mines. One hundred shares of San Toy cost $2. President of the Pittsburgh Exchange is Ralph Struthers Richards, a spruce, popular socialite who heads one of the biggest brokerage houses in Pittsburgh, Kay, Richards...
...gained fame as a still photographer, currently earns his bread-&-butter doing color work for Ladies' Home Journal, has made several cinema shorts including H2O, Surf and Sea Weed, Pie in the Sky. Paul Strand, one-time protege of Alfred Stieglitz. did a film called Redes for the Mexican Government. Leo Hurwitz has excited Leftist audiences with shorts on the "Scottsboro Boys" and a Washington hunger march...
...little fighting thrown in to keep everyone in trim. Mr. Brown clowns through this inane plot in a pleasant, fairly amusing way, assisted by Joan Blondell. The stage show, headed by M. Tito Guizar, is incredibly poor. It's hard to tell whether Guizar is trying to be Mexican, Spanish or Italian, but it doesn't matter much. The revue is billed as "especially produced for Metropolitan patrons," which just goes to show what the management thinks of its customers...