Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forty-hour law must be modified by virtue of national necessity, as well as by reason of the general situation in Eu rope. In no country in the world, except France and Mexico, is it the normal time of work. In no country of the world are factories allowed to go idle for one or two days a week...
...sizable investments in almost every hotspot in the world: Spain, China, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Germany, Rumania, Japan, Poland. In Shanghai the war cost it 10,525 of its 50,000 phones, but most have since been regained. In Spain, where I. T. & T. has an investment of $67,000,000, about one-fifth its total, the system is still in good order because both Rightists and Leftists need it, but whether I. T. & T. will ever again get the $3,000,000 annual profit it used to make is no more certain than the war's outcome...
...desires of Mexicans with the claims of U. S. citizens : "On the one hand, are weighed the conquests of justice and the uplift of an entire people, and on the other hand the purely pecuniary interests of certain individuals." This, said Señor Hay with masterly blandness, justified Mexico's "apparent failure" to pay for what she took...
...show that Foreign Secretary Hay meant business, the Mexican Official Gazette announced on the day the note was delivered that 1,800 acres of pasture land in the State of Jalisco had just been confiscated from Dora and Oscar Newton, U. S. citizens. In point of plain fact, Mexico had told Mr. Hull to go jump in the Rio Grande; that U. S. citizens who own little as well as big properties in Mexico will get paid for their seizure when, as and if the Mexican Government feels like it. All he proposed was that the two Governments appoint representatives...
Last week the Government of President Lázaro Cárdenas remained financially above water largely by reason of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s continued purchases of Mexican silver. Mexico was in the grip of an economic upset. One day last week the great square in front of the Presidential Palace was turned over to the 25,000 demonstrators of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). The CTM Secretary General, intense Vicente Lombardo Toledano urged support of the Mexican New Deal, proclaimed: "All property owners and capitalists in Mexico are Fascists...