Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove that U. S. money is the curse of Latin America. In his tract on the Capitalistic Rover Boys in Cuba, entitled The Crime of Cuba, he lambasted the then U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim whose family had given Baiter Beals a Guggenheim Fellowship to study imperialism in Mexico. Fact was that last week Journalist Beals had not made up his mind about the present regime of President Carlos Mendieta and Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista...
...Mexico City last September a troupe of Russians examined themselves ruefully, decided that they all had measles. Great was their relief when the little pink spots turned out to be nothing worse than flea bites. Members of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe could ill afford to be sick just then: they were starting on a tour which was to cover 20,000 miles of travel, give performances in 90 cities...
...Robinson is the world's greatest authority on the asters of Mexico, Central America, and South America and has been honored both here and abroad for his service to Botany. During the 43 years he has directed the Herbarium, it has tripled in size to become the most important establishment of its kind in the world...
According to the Primate, he was ordered by traffic police to leave his car and enter theirs, was kept sitting parked in a fashionable suburb of Mexico City from 6 to 8:30 p. m., then taken to a police station where he sat up all night in a chair, refusing food but accepting lemonade...
...President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico returned to the capital from a brief tour of northern and central States, the Government announced that Primate Diaz, when arrested, had a bagful of small coins he had collected for administering confirmation to children at 75 centavos (21?) each outside his district. The Primate, according to the Government, signed an admission that by officiating out of bounds he had violated Mexican law, promised not to repeat the offense and was subjected to a fine of 100 pesos ($27.75), "payable at his convenience." Last week His Grace...