Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Katherine Avila Brooks, 17 year old high school student from Tulsa, Oklahoma, held a snowless court in the hills of New Hampshire this week-end as 1200 girls from as far away as Mexico City converged on Dartmouth to dance and skate, but not to ski, at the twenty-eighth annual mid-winter extravaganza...
...girl is an irresolute person fatally destined to be her own destroyer. Movie stardom offered by the playboy is no more to her liking than being the first lady of New Mexico. The finance of the liberal, she allows herself, to put it mildly, to be seduced by the communist. Since, however, the latter has made no promises either to her or to the liberal, who was once his best friend and patron, neither can censure him for treachery when he walks off to keep himself unattached. Her end, and that of the liberal, are thus close of tragic...
Neutral observers in Mexico City judged that President Cardenas and his associates have only just realized what economists have known for months: that his agrarian decrees of the past year have had many disastrous results. Total production of such Mexican staple crops as wheat, corn and cocoa has shrunk sharply partly due to drought, partly to inefficient working of lands divided and parceled out among the peons...
...cost of living has been rising in Mexico so fast that recently the Department of Economy stopped publishing price indices. Mexicans with money have continued, however, to buy the U. S. razor blades, radios and motor cars...
...Humanitarian President Cardenas it was clear last week that Mexico will have much more money to spend on his own New Deal if it spends less money abroad. Because Cardenas not long ago promised that he would make no further use of his extraordinary powers after Jan. 1, 1938, his drastic tariff decree was carefully dated...