Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specialist in international affairs, Mr. Smith began the practice of law in Boston in 1896. He was chosen one of the organizers of the financial consortium for China and acted as adviser to the Mexican Government on the adjusting of its national debt...
Unperturbed by all this furor, a swart, mop-haired, black-toothed man in morning coat and badly-adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
Even less potentially troublesome are the Mexican Ambassador's other problems. Last month Mexico paid the first $500,000 of an agreed $7,000,000 to settle U. S. claims for life and property destroyed in the chaotic years 1910-20. Old Ambassador Josephus Daniels has solidly entrenched himself with Mexican officials by his seeming sympathy with their Six-Year Plan. Cautious and tentative have been Mexican moves against foreign capital (TIME, Feb. 25). Remembering the shady methods employed by some U. S. citizens in acquiring Mexican lands, the State Department is in no hurry to make trouble about...
...Mexico, where in absentia Novelist Lewisohn obtained a divorce from his first wife, Mrs. Mary Arnold Crocker Childs Lewisohn, Author "Bosworth Crocker." In Poland eleven years ago Novelist Lewisohn obtained a rabbinical divorce, the validity of which has since been questioned. He married Miss Spear, begat a child. The Mexican divorce and proxy marriage were an attempt to legalize his position. Mrs. Lewisohn I, who in 1924 obtained a separation providing $55 a week alimony, called the Juarez proceedings "laughable...
...hangs upon the wall." For the improperly educated, Soapy translated the Latin text into real life. When Denver finally decided it was tired of Soapy and his kind, he moved on again, this time to Mexico, where he almost sold old Porfirio Díaz the services of a Mexican Foreign Legion, which Soapy, for a good round sum, was to organize among the riff-raff of the border...