Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testimony disclosed that, as everyone already knew, the Power lobby had employed its Constitutional right of petition to influence Congressmen against the bill by letters, telegrams, speeches, broadcasts, advertisements. But no whit of evidence was turned up to prove that Lobbyist Gadsden, descendant of the U. S. Minister to Mexico who negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, had used a single dollar of his funds to purchase votes or otherwise corrupt the Congress...
...Omaha in the convention hall, a bedroom in the Castle Hotel, newshawks found only about 20 delegates, including a half-dozen from Omaha, eight from Minnesota, one from Texas, one from Arizona, one from the Republic of Mexico, and one -"General" Coxey-from Ohio. The platform was what Jacob Coxey always has campaigned for: greenbacks to put the unemployed to work. Only difference was that in 1894 he advocated half a billion in greenbacks to cure depression; in 1920, five billion; in 1935, 50 billion...
...Indian mestizos who rule Mexico love nothing so much as a mural full of anti-capitalist symbolism, though they themselves number some of the richest men in North America. Last year they had Diego Rivera repaint in Mexico City's pink-domed National Theatre the magnificent fresco mural the Rockefellers had ordered out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Last week the world's biggest mural project was being smeared across the walls and ceilings of Mexico City's vasty Abelardo Rodriguez Market by nine youthful painters, the eldest little more...
...Mexico and the U. S. Southwest the name of Otero is a potent one. Once great landowners, holders in territorial days of one enormous ranch that extended from Pefia Blanca to El Paso, Tex., members of the Otero family have been judges, governors, railroad builders, bankers, billiard champions, sportsmen. During the era of Western expansion, they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental...
...last desperate effort to educate his sons, Merchant Otero sent them to Notre Dame, again to St. Louis University, where they enjoyed the city but did not attend classes. When 19-year-old Miguel returned to New Mexico, armed warfare had broken out between the Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad...