Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...review.") He dwelt on the hurricanes which wreck ships going around the Florida Keys. ("I do not brag about those hazards; they are too close to Florida. ... I mention this as a fact.") He concluded: "This project is the mightiest force now available in making the Gulf of Mexico the Mediterranean of the Western World...
Monte Carlo is only in the picture for about five minutes, and the rest of the time is spent in Mr. William's courting of the Duchess, (Miss Del Rio), who has somehow got transplanted from Mexico. They have the best time together going to the English equivalent of Coney Island and masked balls, and probably other places too. The reason we are uncertain is that the sound mercifully failed at one point. The audience took the blow manfully, however...
...less than seven coal-producing states, each saying that it could not satisfactorily regulate the coal trade because of its interstate nature, that it wanted Federal help. Such briefs by states disclaiming any Federal invasion of their rights were something new. The Democratic Governors of Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Indiana, Illinois, Washington, Kentucky, Ohio, gratefully supplied the New Deal with these unusual testimonials. Whether all the Governors had a right to do so was at least debatable. Governor Davey of Ohio, who has a Republican Attorney General, had to have his brief filed by his secretary. These briefs sounded...
Prayers, wailing chants and the mournful notes of reed pipes sounded last week in many a dusty, sparsely settled district of New Mexico and southern Colorado. On Ash Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with...
...Carl Taylor was murdered by his house boy, it was suggested that the killing was in retribution for an article written by Taylor on the Penitentes and subsequently published in Today. Nevertheless, in recent years the Penitentes have been photographed, and on Good Friday many a tourist in New Mexico goes "Penitente-hunting," to be foiled only if the brothers conclude their Lenten observances in the dead of night or in the most remote districts...