Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bankers." Major work of the Conference week was to organize ten committees, 24 subcommittees and to deal in the Steering Committee with a sensational proposal by pugnacious Mexican Foreign Minister Dr. Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc. He wanted the Conference to declare a six to ten-year all-American moratorium on international public and private debts. As high words began to fly, correspondents pressed their ears to the broad panels of the Steering Committee's door. Scandalized, the Conference secretariat sent Uruguayan Republican guards in blue uniforms with scarlet breastplates, spiked steel helmets and imposing white-holstered revolvers to chase...
Amid pandemonium the whole Tabasco delegation and a large section of the Convention leaped to their feet shouting "DOWN WITH GOD!" When quiet was restored the Convention voted that Article II of the Mexican Constitution, which already forbids religious instruction shall be extended to compel "Socialist instruction" in schools. As one delegate put it: "Someone has said that God has strong arms to guide the destinies of Mexico but we know that our farmers and laborer have still stronger arms and will shape their own destiny...
...foreign capitalists from playing a dominant role in Mexico and to bring the country's enterprise under Socialistic State control. Dismayed by this evidence of General Calles' fresh intent to press his program strongly, the Bank of Montreal (which once exercised almost a monopoly in large scale Mexican credit and exchange operations) was reported by Mexico City's authoritative El Universal last week about to follow the example of the Anglo South American Bank which recently closed its branches in Mexico...
...Mexican hero could make his appearance on the scene among the tanks and bombs; he would disperse the multitude and single-handed save the Negro from the lynchers, and, furthermore, prove him innocent because the crime had been committed by another...
...newsheets. "Personal" columns in London papers are usually full of interesting and mysterious appeals, appointments and code messages. In the U. S. they are taken up almost exclusively by statements from husbands who will no longer be responsible for their wives' debts, eccentric job-hunters, Mexican divorce lawyers and, in Manhattan, the dismal efforts of one Hiram Mann to get himself elected to Congress on a platform of back pay for Brooklyn Navy Yard workers...