Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British cruiser last week chased the German freighter Havelland into Manzanillo on the west coast of Mexico where she evidently intended to pick up gas and oil supplies. Same day the German tanker Emmy Friederich slid out of Tampico on Mexico's other coast, carrying 39,500 barrels of oil and a lot of livestock, lumber and cloth. She said she was bound for Malmö, Sweden, but observers guessed she had a U-boat rendezvous...
...Critic Woollcott answered: "I only review plays for money." In Too Many Girls (produced by George Abbott) Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who always bob up with something as little like their last musicomedy as possible, have jumped all the way from Shakespeare and old Syracuse to college and New Mexico. Their scene is a rundown campus called Pottawatomie ("One of those colleges that play football on Fridays") and their plot a combination of Boy Meets Girl and Team Beats Rival...
South of the border down Mexico...
That was the beginning of a deal. While the airlines' lawyers were arguing before the CAA, opponents Frye and Kratz went hangar-flying over drinks in a nearby bar, became fast friends. A few weeks ago they met again on a New Mexico dude ranch at a meeting of Conquistadores del Cielo (Conquerors of the Sky), an airline executives' organization for making hoopla in ten-gallon hats and hair pants (see cut). Over the poker table where they played with steady hand for fat stakes, and on horseback trips where they rode for saddle-galls, the deal...
...even the best "liberal" thinking has seemed about as far behind the times as Montesquieu's and Jefferson's was ahead of theirs. Parkes's book catches up with history. A young (34) history instructor at New York University, previously known for a brilliant History of Mexico and for a few remarkably lucid essays, Parkes has tested the dogma of the Left in the light of history and reason, drawn his conclusions, brought them into sharp focus with political facts, and thereby outlined a progressive program with at least theoretical drive and good sense...