Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week reporters dawdled in the press box of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies while on the floor the majority bloc of President Cardenas' deputies steamrollered its program ruthlessly forward against the agitated but ineffective shouts of minority delegates. Up for discussion was a minority proposal to grant a 5,000-peso bonus ($1,400) to each & every member of Congress, a proposal which President Cardenas had vetoed week before, despite the fact that Mexican custom sanctions such "tips" to obedient legislators. When the majority deputies sternly resisted this tempting bait, voted it down, hell suddenly broke...
...press box from which reporters tumbled to safety. When the smoke cleared away Deputy Manuel Martinez Valadez of Jalisco lay dead on the floor. Deputy Luis Mendez, who died next day, and two other deputies were wounded. Fifty shots were fired. It was the third fatal battle in Mexico's Congress since 1924. Deplored Speaker Luis Tavor...
...Southern Pacific-Morgan Liner Dixie waited until 6 p. m. for 25 vacationists whose train had been held up by a Texas washout. More than a quarter of a day behind schedule, the Dixie dropped down through the Mississippi Delta, swung out into the Gulf of Mexico. Aboard her was a crew of 123 and 233 passengers, including three popularity contest winners from Pennsylvania, a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, some honeymooners and an assortment of trippers and travelers taking advantage of the cheap rail-water route from the West Coast to New York. It occurred to few that they had chosen...
Died. Edward Laurence Doheny, 79, Los Angeles oil tycoon; after a three-year illness; in Los Angeles. A mule-driver at 16, he looked for gold for 20 years, found little, switched to oil. tapped the Los Angeles field and another great pool near Tampico in Mexico, built up a $155,000,000 petroleum empire. He was indicted for bribing Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall with $100,000 to secure the Elk Hills oil lease from the Government. was acquitted in 1930 when he convinced a Washington jury that the $100,000 in a "little black...
Artists in the U. S. will, if necessary, argue all through the night about their work, but they seldom resort to gunfire. In Mexico, art is taken much more seriously. Last week a sober crowd of black-coated schoolteachers filled the auditorium of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City for a conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear...