Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he arrived; Richardson maintains the no-nonsense tra dition of banking, runs his office with taut efficiency. But on that day last week there was more than routine importance to his arrival. It was his last; at 65, the banker who opened First National City's first Mexican branch 27 years ago was hanging up his Homburg...
Since those early days, Richardson and Mexico have become close friends. Each has done well out of the friendship: in 1932 the bank lent the Mexican government $10 million and in 1936 Richardson married a Mexican girl, now has two children. He owns a handsome home in the fashionable suburb of Coyoacan, has filled it with a collection of art treasures and a cluster of warm friends. When he an nounced, to no one's surprise, that he would remain in Mexico as an investment counselor, his feelings for his adopted country broke through his customary reserve. "The country...
Scotching scuttlebutt that she is getting a Mexican divorce, Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton, 43, gave the highest marks to her sixth husband, Tennisocialite Baron Gottfried von Cramm (whom she married last November, has seen often since). In London, Barbara declared: "Gottfried is the only one who has really wanted me to love him. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them. It upset them...
...producer. A graduate of the Michigan State College of Mining and Technology, Weed started at the bottom of a mine as a pick-and-shovel hand in 1911, later managed copper properties throughout Michigan, Arizona and Mexico. In 1935 he was named president of Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., a Mexican subsidiary of Ana conda, has been a vice president of the parent company since...
...possible that only the vigorous exercise of bad judgment kept John Charles Fremont from becoming one of the authentic giants of U.S. history. His behavior in California during the Mexican War led to court-martial for mutiny, disobedience and conduct prejudicial to order, and his resignation from the Army. His search for a railroad route through the Southwest ended in disaster because he would not listen to men who knew better than he did the dangers of midwinter in the mountains. He was the first man nom inated for the presidency by a Republican convention, but he did not bother...