Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horrified at the death of New Mexico's Bronson Cutting in an airplane crash (TIME, May 13, 1935), the Senate started an investigation of the Bureau of Air Commerce, heard its aids to flight safety called "dangerously inadequate" by many an authority (TIME, Feb. 24 et seg.). The best rebuttal of the Bureau was a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 transport pilots. Last week, a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee disregarded this defense, held the Bureau negligent in the Cutting crash, recommended a drastic overhaul of Bureau personnel...
...Portland, Ore., "The Rose City," clubwomen pinned yellow roses on delegates to the Northwest Association of Sheriffs and Police, innocently aroused a full-sized rumpus among a contingent of visiting Mexicans. Explained their interpreter: In Mexico a yellow rose is worn to announce a broken engagement...
Meanwhile a discordant voice sounded from Mexico, whose history is speckled with de facto Governments set up by military rebellion. Last week Mexico's Leftist Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) asked President Lázaro Cárdenas to refuse Somoza's de facto Government Mexican recognition. "It is time," the Confederation sanctimoniously declared, "to do something to end military rebellions in Latin America." This put President Cárdenas in a ticklish spot. Latin American nations have repeatedly charged that the U. S.'s occasional refusal to recognize Latin-American revolutionary Governments was in effect...
...Working directly on the stone like her tutor, Sculptor Phillips completed and exhibited two determined, crisply defined heads, took the Art Association's $300 Purchase Prize for a sturdy Young Woman (see cut). Her scholarship money will enable Sculptor Phillips to observe U. S. and German modern architecture, Mexico's Mayan pyramids and Toltec temples, the standard art spectacles of Italy and France...
State University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) Secretary Robert MacDonald Lester of Carnegie Corporation ................LL.D...