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Repeal of Prohibition in the U. S., legalizing of horse racing in California and the sudden suppression of public gambling in Mexico have reduced the border town of Tijuana (literally "Aunty Jane") from an egregious haunt for U. S. tourists to a bedraggled ghost city of boarded-up saloons and flapping signs. Some excitement occurred two months ago when 400 unemployed barricaded themselves in the big Agua Caliente (literally "Hot Water") hotel and defied the garrison of 28 soldiers to oust them. Since then Aunty Jane has been tomb-quiet...
...Popular Front" Government is in power in (1 Loyalist Spain and France, 2 Canada and Mexico, 3 Belgium and Russia, 4 Insurgent Spain and Belgium, 5 France and Poland...
...nation which resigned from the League of Nations late in 1937 was (1 Italy, 2 Germany, 3 Japan, 4 Mexico, 5 Russia...
Informed Mexican observers believe that the greatest threat of a turn to the Right in Mexico comes not from the disorganized conservatives and dispossessed landlords but, paradoxically, from within the Cárdenas regime itself. President Cárdenas came in on a program of "social revolution" for Mexico's proletariat which is now encountering rough weather. For three years of his six-year term he insisted he was still pointing Left. Suddenly, two months ago he pushed through measures which smack of a totalitarian state and make him virtual dictator of Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved...
Typical was the condition last week of Tamaulipas State, where incipient outbreaks occurred. Thousands of peons found that bank credit for Mexico's late cotton-planting season was nonexistent. Suddenly, the Government suspended irrigation public-work projects for lack of cash. Discontent was widespread and the Gold Shirts decided on their abortive attempt to stir the unrest into mass revolt. At week's end the President ordered Government jobs provided for them on the Matamoros-Ciudad Victoria highway construction...