Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission sailed away, the U. S. Consulate, which had done nothing at all about the jailing of the commission, went to work to do something about Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar. They were still sweltering in Tiscornia Immigration Station, clutching their round-trip tickets to Mexico City...
Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar, two mildly adventurous Manhattan schoolteachers on a holiday jaunt to Mexico City, counted themselves very lucky last week when, hardly out of New York harbor on the 5.5. Oriente bound for Havana, they fell in with a voluble group of Manhattan intellectuals. Leader of their new friends was Clifford Odets, able young left-wing author of three (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) of the twelve plays now running on Broadway. Among Odets' 14 companions were a Brooklyn Congregational minister, two Negroes, a correspondent for The Nation, a national...
...colony at Calexico which produced $18,000,000 worth of cotton in 1919. He owns a 281,000-acre ranch in Los Angeles and Kern Counties stocked with fine cattle, a 340,000-acre hunting preserve in Colorado, an interest in another 500,000-acre sporting preserve in New Mexico, is officer or director in 35 California corporations, including oil, shipping, banking. The whisper, "Chandler's in it," signifies a good thing to most California businessmen...
Left. By the late U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico: an estate of nearly $4,000,000. including bequests of $50,000 to U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette, $25,000 to Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin...
...Drunk," mighty, hawk-eyed, 6 ft. 2 in., drifted down to Texas in time for the trouble with Mexico. Santa Anna drenched The Alamo in its defenders' blood, put the Government and people of the new Republic into panic. Commander-in-Chief Sam Houston yelled, "Remember The Alamo" and raised an army out of the ground. In 15 minutes at San Jacinto he wiped out Santa Anna's far larger force, losing only six of his own men. Worshiping Texans gave the hero two terms as president, sent him to the U. S. Senate when Texas joined...