Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson's left side, ended his nationwide speaking tour for the League, left him an invalid for the rest of his life, he was visited by a Senate subcommittee, ostensibly to discuss a Mexican treaty, actually to decide on his fitness to continue in office. Leader was New Mexico's Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, who entered the room "looking like a regular Uriah Heap, 'washing his hands with invisible soap in imperceptible water.' " Said Senator Fall: "Well, Mr. President, we have all been praying for you." Said the President: "Which way, Senator...
...some of the refugees elsewhere, but with little success. The U. S. offered to take just 352, the unfilled portion of the 1939 quota for Spanish immigrants. South American countries wanted only Basque farmers. Soviet Russia invited only a few big Loyalist leaders to make their homes there. Mexico was willing to receive some, provided they promised to keep out of politics...
When a lawyer named Carlton Cole Magee bought the Albuquerque morning Journal from Albert Bacon Fall and friends in 1920, Senator Fall with childish candor told him most of New Mexico's political secrets, incidentally confessed he was broke. With this information Lawyer Magee turned crusader, fought the Fall machine tooth & nail, was jailed for libel and mauled by political thugs, finally forced to sell his paper. It was a Magee telegram to Senator Thomas James Walsh concerning Fall's finances that made Teapot Dome a criminal case. By 1923 another Magee paper, the State Tribune, was foundering...
Last week Carl Magee was in Oklahoma City again, having resigned from the three papers and left the Valley for good. He explained that he was looking over his interests in Dual Parking Meter Co., would soon leave for New Mexico to write a book on Teapot Dome. At reports that he would revive the Oklahoma News (which Scripps-Howard let die last month), ex-Firebrand Carl Magee only shook his head...
...this neglected locale, Fiesta In Manhattan is the first novel of a 34-year-old New Jerseyite, who discovered Lower Harlem's barrio by way of Mexico, where he spent a year as the happy alternative to going into his father's silk business...