Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand to witness what was widely publicized as the greatest peacetime concentration of U. S. troops in history were military attaches of Germany, France, Japan, Russia, China, Spain and Mexico...
Married. Francis Bolton Mallory, 37, onetime editor of Life, onetime husband of Cinemactress Nancy Carroll; and Carlota Lobato, 14, his fourth wife, daughter of a Mexican realtor, whom he met fortnight ago; in Acapulco, Mexico...
...died last June. In four ballots they eliminated such of the 42 Vermonters as had been nominated, went outside the State for the third successive time, elected Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton. 54, vicar of Trinity Chapel, Manhattan. Vicar Sutton learned of his election with surprise while vacationing in Mexico...
President Cárdenas had already stopped gambling in the rest of Mexico last December; even in the Mexican politicians' fabulous Foreign Club at Mexico City. Last week he clamped down on Agua Caliente. Drawing most of their huge income from the gambling concessions, Hot Water's proprietors knew at once that a beautiful dream was over, shut up shop. Guests, croupiers, gamblers, horse trainers, horses, whippets, barbers, masseuses, all started trailing back to California...
...Katz, a Viennese artist originally brought to the U. S. by Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip to paint the Vanderlip family. Artist Katz started the mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided political subjects. His panels depict, first, the rise of the Toltec culture, based on the tools of peace; next, the Aztec culture, based on the tools of war. The culminating panel, Muralist Katz decided, should represent modern Youth walking between its twin heritages of creation and destruction...