Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contra Costa deputies plumed themselves for several days on the astuteness of their "robot ghost" idea until the Mexican Consul lodged a strong protest against such third degree methods...
Dobbs was a U. S. bum whose wits and luck kept him just a step from the gutter in a Mexican seaport town. The oil boom was dwindling, his luck was beginning to go too, when he met two compatriots in like case, and the three of them agreed to pool their resources, go prospecting for gold. Curtin, like Dobbs, was a greenhorn at the business, but luckily Howard was an oldtime prospector. He led them up through the mountains to a godforsaken spot, set them to work panning for gold dust. After many a long, backbreaking month they each...
Situated on the brink of the Pacific ten miles from the Mexican border, San Diego is a bustling city of 150,000 whose chief assets are one of the world's finest harbors, the adjacent rich resort colony of Coronado, the biggest West Coast naval station and Army, Navy and Marine air bases. From Chicago the city's resourceful businessmen borrowed their reason for having a fair this year. It was to represent, approximately, "four centuries of progress" dating from 1542 when Portuguese Navigator Cabrillo's ships entered the harbor. More realistic were San Diego...
...subdued tendency to affront Mexico by portraying it as a country whose people understand English only when they are bribed and whose music exists solely to goad listeners into buying silence. In Caliente is dull only in its more expensive moments. Even Busby Berkeley could not do much with Mexican dance effects that has not already been done and probably the most devastating thing to be said about the Warren and Dubin music is that there are times when it sounds as if it had been written by somebody else. Good scenes: Miss Del Rio saving O'Brien from...
Coming at a time when $2 was a good day's pay and mass production was yet unnamed, "the Ford idea" was a frontpage sensation, overshadowing Mexican war news and provoking violent controversy. The Detroit automaker was praised as an "inspired millionaire," accused of shrewd self-interest, damned as a dangerous Socialist. In seven days Manhattan newspapers carried a total of 52 columns of Ford stories. Radicals feared that Mr. Ford was buying his workers' souls with a few extra dollars per week; conservatives were concerned about employes "spending their money foolishly." And out of the deafening hubbub...