Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-haired Commissioner O'Ryan's office. An oldtime militiaman, John Francis O'Ryan joined New York's smart 7th Regiment in 1897, was abruptly promoted from major to major general commanding all State troops in 1912. In 1916 he led the New York national guardsmen to the Mexican border, two years later went to France at the head of the 27th Division. He served with distinction, was the only militiaman to retain his command of a division throughout the War. His men selected for their divisional insignia a starry arm-patch supposed to represent the constellation Orion. Back home...
John Hunt Morgan, Alabama-born (1825), was a member of an aristocratic Kentucky family. At 21 he first saw action in the Mexican War, liked it so much that when he went home he founded the Lexington Rifles, which attracted all the young bloods in town. When the Civil War broke, Morgan and his "terrible men" were ready. Morgan was a regular officer, and took orders (when he felt like it) from his superiors, but the North persisted in regarding him as an irregular, capable of every atrocity from horse-stealing to killing the wounded. Biographer Swiggett says Morgan obeyed...
...officials said the trouble all started with a sassy kitchen hand named Severe Moreno. Y employes blamed Stewardess Dolores Uranga and Secretary Alberto Salinas Carranza, technical adviser to Mexico's Street Cleaning Department and nephew of onetime Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Last month Severo Moreno sassed Stewardess Dolores Uranga, not for the first time. Secretary Carranza sentenced him to an eight-day suspension without pay, called a policeman to help enforce the sentence. Intolerable was that affront to the polysyllabic dignity of the Union de Obreros y Empleados de las YMCA, which consists of 77 cooks, waiters, janitors, clerks...
Also ahead of the ruck was a candidate with an astonishing record. He was John C. ("Iron Jack") Walton. Engine driver for Mexican President Porfirio Diaz in revolutionary times, he and a jazz band in 1922 got a larger majority of votes for Governor than had ever before been received. Thereupon "Iron Jack" became embroiled in a Ku Klux Klan scandal and was thrown out of office for corruption ten months after he was inducted. In spite of a mail fraud indictment three years ago, a repentant citizenry elected him State Corporation Commissioner...
...gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part of the Union, he proclaimed himself Emperor of the U. S. When a friend called his attention to the sorry state of Mexican affairs, Norton I decreed himself Protector of Mexico. He dropped this title after ill-fated Maximilian's brief reign, remarking that "It is impossible to protect such an unsettled nation...