Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zachary Taylor, known as "Old Rough and Ready" in his 40-year military career, was considered a poor tactician, but this was offset by a redeeming quality: he won battles. His early victories in the Mexican War (1846) made him a national hero, but President Polk and his Cabinet were critical of surrender terms granted Mexicans after the Battle of Monterrey. Taylor not only hotly defended his actions, but wrote a scathing letter criticizing the Administration. The letter was made public and Taylor was reprimanded. He refused to be silenced. He sent off another bitter letter of protest, which...
More came every year. In 1948 the U.S. and Mexican governments tried to channel and control the migration, signed a series of pacts by which Mexico agreed to send labor crews across the border for specific jobs, and that the U.S. would guarantee them a "prevailing wage," housing and insurance. It was like making international agreements about locusts...
...Mexican migrants rebelled at delays and red tape. U.S. farmers, by & large, boycotted the agreement too. They had come to consider the wetbacks as a cheap, natural resource, as rightfully theirs as rain or good soil. Forced to choose between lawbreaking or paying legally imported Mexican "Nationalists" a fair wage, many farmers chose, without hesitation, to break the law. After all, wetbacks would work-and are working-for as little as 20? an hour, a wage comparable to that skilled labor receives in Mexico.They do not argue, do not agitate, do not complain; if they do, they can always...
...Mexican Red Cross doctor's bad arithmetic caused a flurry of horror in Mexico City last week. The doctor announced that he had found that 70% of the children born in Mexico die before reaching the age of four. Later he admitted a wild error in his calculations; the actual figure was about 20%.* But one out of five, he insisted, was bad enough...
...milk at all after weaning, drink pulque (fermented juice of the maguey plant) instead. The parents of a pellagra-stricken three-year-old girl last week listed a typical diet: for breakfast, beans, tortillas, pulque; for lunch, beans and pulque] for supper, orange-leaf tea. Said a Mexican doctor: "The children of Mexico suffer from 'mexicanitis'-hunger...