Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever hear of Colonel Prentiss Ingraham's colossal writing capacity? Ingraham would have six serial stories running at one time in different periodicals, and provide the copy as required; a detective story, romance story, wild west story, Indian tale, sea story, and Mexican stories of adventure-all good stuff...
...President four years too soon. As a general, he prematurely emancipated the slaves in his district. As an explorer, he became such a popular favorite at 29 after his first Western trip, that later and harder journeys were anticlimactic. He raised the U. S. flag in California before the Mexican War broke out. He was born out of wedlock and married in haste. He fell in love with smart, ambitious Jessie Benton, daughter of Missouri's great Senator, but she was only fifteen; he married her secretly two years later, before he had her father's consent...
...After the stroke that paralyzed Woodrow Wilson's left side, ended his nationwide speaking tour for the League, left him an invalid for the rest of his life, he was visited by a Senate subcommittee, ostensibly to discuss a Mexican treaty, actually to decide on his fitness to continue in office. Leader was New Mexico's Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, who entered the room "looking like a regular Uriah Heap, 'washing his hands with invisible soap in imperceptible water.' " Said Senator Fall: "Well, Mr. President, we have all been praying for you." Said the President...
...Cardenas was equally ostentatious by his absence - he was off in the provinces making speeches praising the expropriation policy. For six days Envoy Richberg cooled his heels, diplomatically saying little and not denying reports that he would propose a compromise whereby the companies would operate the wells for the Mexican Government. Last week this bit of Mexican "mañana policy" was suddenly ended by hard-bitten General Joaquin Amaro...
Assistant magazine editor of the Boston Transcript for two years after graduation from Harvard (1915), Marquand served in the cavalry on the Mexican border, overseas as first lieutenant of field artillery. After the War he tried reporting for a year on the New York Tribune, quit because it was no place to "make a fortune." As a bitter ad writer, he saved a few hundred dollars, quit to write popular fiction...