Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tulsa roared with mirth at the idea of such a campaign. Col. Hoop did no campaigning but his 150 students, delighted with the laboratory demonstration, held mass meetings for him, spoke at political rallies, got a professor of Spanish to stump a Mexican district. Last week Tulsans voted in their primaries. The vote for Police & Fire Commissioner: A. P. Bowles 3,637; Tom Munroe 4,680; O. W. Hoop...
Before an enthusiastic audience of 500 people, Leverett House last night presented its play, "Rio Grande" or "Trouble on the Mexican Border." Some capable actors performed magnificently in this "startling and instructive moral drama...
Adalberzo Tejeda's word is all but law in the oil-rich coastal State of Veracruz. He subscribes to the "regular" Mexican politics of Socialism and atheism, but he is drastic and immediate about it. In 1932, as Governor of Veracruz, he pushed through the State Legislature a law subjecting "property rights of all classes of possessions ... to enforced expropriation for reasons of social utility, with indemnification." At this great grab even Calles' Federal politicians were appalled. They ordered Tejeda to back down. He pondered the law. finally changed the word "social" to "public" and signed...
...Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route from Reno to the coast, of two nervous, overdressed divorcees with their languid chauffeur (Frank McHugh ) ; an itinerant bankrobber's bashful greeting to a brash female hitchhiker; a Mexican peasant apologizing for the Ford which contains his wife, children, chicken coop and guitar. Aline MacMahon ably portrays the proprietress, a calm, ugly, unhappy woman gloomily trying to conceal her emotion when brought face to face with a man she is trying to forget. Ann Dvorak plays her young sister, infatuated...
...until last spring when he went to Mexico City did the world realize that José Iturbi's ambition reached higher than the piano. There he gave 15 recitals in three weeks and still the Mexicans wanted more. He itched to try conducting. Because there was no assembled orchestra available he put an advertisement in the newspapers. For his first Mexican concert he hired 40 players. By the time he reached the 29th concert he had no musicians under his baton. When he returned to New York in the summer he conducted the Philharmonic in the Stadium series (TIME...