Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Senator was in the Chamber except New Mexico's Chavez† and two (Utah's Thomas, New Hampshire's Bridges) who had paired their votes, so 93 votes were recorded, the biggest Senate vote in three years. Several times the lead changed as, in the hushed room, Senators in alphabetical order answered "yea" or "nay." First shock to Leader Barkley's composure came just before his own name was called. Alabama's Bankhead, brother of the Speaker and ordinarily a sure Administration vote, said...
...Times issued a statement declaring its utter confidence in its man, revealing that it had sent a representative to Mexico not long ago to check on his authenticity. Kluckhohn was assigned to cover Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. Other sectors of the U. S. press were less temperate. The Hearstian New York Mirror shrilled: "Presidents Roosevelt and Cárdenas ought to realize that a lot of Americans are saying: 'Why not just go down there and take over Mexico? . . . The Mexicans themselves would be better off.' " In Mexico City the conservative Ultimas Noticias declaimed: "Kluckhohn sees everything...
Said Propaganda Chief Agustin Arrayo of the first correspondent to be deported from Mexico in years: "Mr. Kluckhohn, in his very active work, maliciously misinterpreted the doctrines of the Mexican Government ... in absolute conflict with the most elemental ethics of journalism...
...Mexico, Correspondent Kluckhohn's reports soon took on a tone unsympathetic to the Cárdenas regime. He was the first reporter to discover that proletarian Mexico was bartering expropriated oil for products from Nazi Germany. He reported the woes of foreign businessmen with such zeal that Mexican authorities lost patience...
Last week, when Correspondent Kluckhohn returned to Mexico City from St. Louis, where his first child had been born, he called on the Department of Publicity and Propaganda for comment on a report that Mexico was trying to sell bartered German goods to other Latin American countries. Mr. Kluckhohn was told to come back in an hour. When he went back, accompanied by a U. P. man who was after the same story, he was told to wait while the U. P. man was called upstairs. When Kluckhohn tired of waiting, he started to leave. Two guards grabbed him, hustled...