Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plutarco Elías Calles roared into Mexican politics in 1920 as one of the "Sonora triumvirate" of Obregón, de la Huerta & Calles which overthrew and assassinated President Carranza. Calles, a superb executive during his four years (1924-28) as President, built up a potent political machine. After Obregón's assassination in 1928 he could afford to put in a Presidential puppet, Emilio Fortes Gil, and invent the National Revolutionary Party, a tight Fascist organization with a highly Socialistic program of paper promises for the people. Calles and his henchmen unionized Mexican labor, attacked...
...proved stronger than Strong Man Calles, the exiled Mexican said last week: "I have always considered General Cárdenas a just, honest and sound man but the moods of Cárdenas change from day to day. If there is anything that can save Mexico now, it is for labor and the middle classes to organize and fight Communism. . . . But right now Mexico is a boiling caldron of dissatisfaction. I blame Cárdenas for my exile. I will spend the remainder of my life resting. I hope to find peace in California. . . . I had nothing to do with...
...Furtwangler who relinquished it when he heard of the stormy protests against his Nazi connections. The hunt went on until last week when five conductors were announced for a season cut down from 30 to 24 weeks. One was a Briton, one a Russian, one a Rumanian, one a Mexican, one a Pole...
...adherence by American nations to the Monroe Doctrine is striking evidence that the countries of the Western Hemisphere are moving toward an understanding with the United States, more cordial and genuine that at any time since, perhaps, the days of Henry Clay in the 1820's. Ever since the Mexican War of 1848 they have developed a hatred and distrust for the United States which is not only sullen, but understandable. Sullen in that our very size and power have precluded any effective reprisals on their part; and understandable by the very history of our imperialistic expansion...
...weekly concerts of the Symphony in Boston include the Brahms concerto with Schnabel, and two new works, "Sinfonia of Antigona" and "Sinfonia India" by the Mexican modernist, Carlos Chavez, with the composer himself conducting...