Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this greatest of all Communist exposures of chewing gum, five days before the abdication of Nicholas II. Last week it was just as apt as it had been 20 years ago. And Leon Trotsky was once more a newly-landed exile in America, only this time he was in Mexico. After the Norwegian Government got tired of having him around (TIME, Dec. 28), put hin aboard a Norwegian tanker and landed him in Tampico (TIME, Jan. 18), he promptly began to receive appropriate honors as World Revolutionist No. 1. The Republic of Mexico is ruled by a political party whose...
Last week the President of Mexico General Lazaro Cardenas, sent a luxurious special railway car, El Hidalgo ("The Nobleman"), to fetch Comrade Trotsky from the seacoast to the 7,000-ft. high plateau on which stands Mexico City, Lest anyone do the Great Exile a mischief El Hidalgo stopped some miles outside the capital and Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky, with six Mexican detectives permanently assigned to them, alighted to finish their journey by motor car.* This whisked them to the spacious suburban residence of fat and smoldering Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, an ardent Trotskyist, friend of President Cardenas, and casher...
...Spanish freighter Mar Cantabrico which lay at a Brooklyn pier loading Mr. Cuse's war goods; 3) Richard L. Dineley who, on the day Congress convened, obtained similar licenses to export $4,500,000 of similar second-hand war goods to Spain via Mexico: 4) Felix Gordon de Ordaz, Spanish Ambassador to Mexico, who was flying to Washington to sign the final papers so that 15 of Mr. Dineley's planes could hastily hop across the border to Mexico...
...that of more staple commodities, the obvious and basic explanation is increased consumption. But there have also been special reasons for the hot cocoa market. Unlike rubber and tin (see p. 59) cocoa production is not amenable to cartel agreement. The cocoa tree, which was discovered in Mexico by the Spanish conquistadores, is a sensitive plant, takes from six to eight years of careful tending before it yields a good crop of cocoa beans. In West Africa where one-third of the world's crop is harvested, native growers put in an AAA; of their...
...Adams '88, of Boston, formerly secretary of the navy, treasurer of Harvard, president of the Alumni Association, and member of the Board of Overseers; George Rublee '90 of Washington, D. C., a lawyer and formerly member of the Federal Trade Commission and legal adviser to the American Embassy in Mexico, to the American delegation to the London Naval Conference, and to the government of Colombia; Right Reverend James DeW. Perry '92 of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States...