Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March issue is introduced by a discussion of the agrarian reform in Mexico. Its author is Dr. Ramon Beteta, Mexico's energetic Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He presents the government policy of forced land redistribution, inaugurated in 1915, as a "restorative" development--"giving Mexico back to the Mexicans." Compared with the steady progress of the preceding enclosure movement in Spain as well as in Mexico, the peasant emancipation under Tsar Alexander II is bound to appear in a most favorable light...
...while in Spain agrarian reform became a practical possibility only after the collapse of monarchy in 1931, Mexico's "reconquest of her territory" from foreigners, absentee owners and large-scale operators has now been under way for more than twenty years...
...author, while emphasizing the accomplishments under President Cardenas, admits that the agrarian reform has still a long path to go. In the meantime, we are assured, the former peons "now labor with new ferver and a boundless faith to wrost from the unhewn rocks of the past the Mexico of the future...
...really picturesque personalities in U. S. education, Bill McGovern inherited his wanderlust from his father, an army officer, and his mother. Born in Manhattan, he started to travel when he was six weeks old. His mother once took him to Mexico just to see a revolution. At 16 he studied in a monastery in Kyoto, Japan, became a Buddhist priest...
...present company was incorporated, with him as president, and Otto Zachow received a block of stock. About 1914 Zachow and Besserdich sold out for $25,000. That was a mistake, for General Pershing had found several F.W.D. trucks useful while chasing "Pancho" Villa across Mexico. When War broke in Europe, the Allies began buying F.W.D. trucks in quantity. When the U. S. joined the Wrar, the U. S. Army took over F.W.D.'s entire output. By 1918 it had bought 16,000 F.W.D. trucks, and spare parts equivalent to 14,000 additional trucks. F.W.D.'s 15,000 shares...