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Word: mexico (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This situation, however, was no embarrassment to Dictator Benavides. for of the 21 "democracies" represented at the Conference, only nine-U. S., Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Uruguay- could be defined as States under popular rule. Said Strong Man Benavides, with more subtlety than he perhaps intended: "We cannot offer you, on as grand a scale as some of the other American nations, the harmonious spectacle of a great city that could shelter you as could other capitals. But we do claim your attention to the evolutionary processes of our nationality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Lima | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

LIMA, Peru--Mexico tonight proposed that the eight Pan-American Conference bar the use of force in the collection of international debts, while Argentina accepted in principle a United States project which would bind all 21 American Republics to do everything possible to lower their tariff barriers...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

...more closely knit economic system in the Western Hemisphere through investment of United States capital in South and Central America may be hindered to some extent by fear of direct or indirect expropriation of foreign property, Professor Haring believes, but thinks it is unlikely that many countries will follow Mexico's example in this matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improved Peace Treaties May Result at Lima, Says Haring | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...Mexico is a colony of modern artists little known in the East, outside of New York. The painters live in or around Santa Fe and are called the Santa Fe group. One of the foremost is Cady Wells, whose watercolors are now on exhibit in the Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...zaro Cardenas last week grabbed 7,230 acres, more than eleven square miles, of pasturage in the State of Coahuila, owned by a San Antonian, Mrs. Lettie W. Weller. He split it into 59 farms for 59 Negro families. The ancestors of these Negroes reputedly went to Mexico in the 1860s as slaves of a band of Kickapoo Indians who trekked across the border from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Lettie Weller's Acres | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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