Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alejandro Lerroux resigned once more and passed the Government to his fellow Radical (actually Conservative) Joaquin Chapaprieta. But all Spain sat up last week when Monarchist Deputies screamed in the Cortes that Lerroux's resignation had come immediately after President Niceto Alcala Zamora received a letter from a Mexican gambler and promoter named Daniel Straus who unfolded a strange and scandalous story of 2,000,000 pesetas worth of bribes to bigwigs of Lerroux's party...
Back in the U. S. she met paunchy Diego Rivera, begged his permission to grind colors, become his assistant. She worked with the Mexican muralist on his Detroit Art Institute fresco before helping him with the fresco fiasco of Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933 et ante). It was Lucienne Bloch, as Rivera's official photographer, who took the only pictures of the completed mural before it was ordered destroyed. A few friends call her Lucienne; a few call her Luce. She hates Lucy, prefers the simple, abrupt "Bloch...
Last week, 200 rodeo performers-men and women who average $2,000 a year in prize money, out of which they pay their own expenses, entry fees and hospital bills -were on hand for the opening in Madison Square Garden. New features: a Mexican band; a corral full of Canadian bucking horses freshly picked by Colonel Johnson's bronco scout, Mike Hastings; Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen of Alhambra, Calif., whose best trick consists of making a shoe knock a paper bag off the head of an assistant named George on its way to falling for a ringer...
...Montreal is La Luz Mining Corp., operator of a Mexican gold mine. La Luz lately sought to register with the U. S. Securities & Exchange Commission and sell U. S. investors 100,000 shares of preferred stock at $1.50 a share. In its prospectus it based the value of its mine on the showing of a "mineral indicator" invented by "Professor Philip Haas, scientist and geologist with a world-wide reputation...
...labors were equally tedious to biographer and hero. Morrow's career in France during the War and as Ambassador seems to interest Nicolson more. In Mexico Morrow ruthlessly broke diplomatic traditions, communicated with the State Department by telephone, buttonholed minor officials, made friends with President Calles, effectively neutralized Mexican hostility to the U. S. A nervous man, he had a strange habit of tearing off the corners of papers he read, rolling them in his fingers, putting them in his ear, throwing them on the floor. He worked constantly, with concentration, and with a deepening sense that his advancement...