Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sordid, vicious Tijuana, just across the Mexican border, was a place for Californians to get roaring drunk during most of Prohibition. Seven years ago a syndicate of U. S. hotelmen went two miles deeper into Mexico, to a hot springs oasis and there built a complete, lavish money-spending plant, charged high prices, black-listed the Tijuana riffraff and called their settlement Agua Caliente ("Hot Water"). Repeal killed drab Tijuana, merely boomed the horse & dog racing, the Casino gambling, swimming, drinking at Hot Water. Natives of Hollywood, only an hour and a half away by plane, got in the habit...
...members, pointing out that the great majority of the signers were Jews and Protestants. Responsive to the protests of the Roman Catholic Church against its treatment by the Mexican Government, the petition urged the Administration to inquire into the "facilities for divine worship" available to U. S. citizens in Mexico. With the petition was presented a memorial stating that the signers were unalterably opposed to any semblance of interference in Mexico but urging the President to undertake "the moral vindication of an ethical principle." Reaching out a large hand, Franklin Roosevelt drew a pad of paper toward him, flicked...
Grateful to U. S. oil companies with Mexican interests which customarily pay the bills of its football teams, the University of Mexico made Harry Ford Sinclair an Honorary Alumnus...
...beat China, Mexico and Brazil (by default). Germany beat Italy, Australia and Czechoslovakia. Last week at Wimbledon they met in the Davis Cup interzone final to see which would play England in the challenge round...
...first cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, he has managed to mix with considerable grace business, horses and the conspicuous restlessness of the very rich. He helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is now its board-chairman. He has large holdings of irrigated land in the State of Sonora, Mexico, where he persuaded truculent Yaqui Indians to raise fresh vegetables for midwinter Manhattan tables. He even has the distinction of having been defeated for Congress, as Representative from Long Island's Suffolk & Nassau Counties, on a Democratic ticket in the 1932 landslide...