Word: mexico
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cemetery Strike From Mexico to Manhattan last week went Poet Witter Bynner for the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Annie Brewer Bynner Wellington. Through Brooklyn's streets her funeral procession soberly rolled to Greenwood Cemetery, one of the world's largest burial grounds. When the hearse stopped at the general receiving vault, no cemetery employes appeared to take the casket. Poet Bynner's fellow-mourners carried it in themselves. There they discovered the 350 gravediggers, grass- cutters, gatekeepers, chauffeurs and other laborers, members of the C. I. O. United Cemetery Workers, had gone on strike in protest...
Serenade begins when tough, embittered John Howard Sharp, once an opera star, now a singer in tenth-rate Mexico City night clubs, gets involved in an argument with a bullfighter over a prostitute, takes her home, is invited to act as bookkeeper and chauffeur for a disreputable hotel in the steamy coast town of Acapulco. As he is driving to Acapulco with the owlish, observant Juana, a storm drives them into one of Mexico's closed churches, where Howard builds a fire, cooks meals, despite Juana's fears of sacrilege. While the candles blow out, thunder rolls...
...Though William Chapman Potter has been a banker since 1912. he started out as a mining engineer, ran Guggenheim affairs in Mexico for two years. He was elected president of Guaranty Trust Co. in 1921, chairman of the board in 1934. Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that he had been elected a director, succeeding George W. Davison, chairman of Central Hanover Bank & Trust...
Their route is to Chicago and then down through the Southwest into Mexico and up into California time being no object...
...Mexican Eagle Oil Co., affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell which already controls 60% of Mexican oil production. He handed them an agreement promising them full control of the Poza Rica field, 7,700 of whose 13,000 proven acres Eagle already holds. In return Eagle agreed to give Mexico 15% to 35% of the petroleum it produced, varying with type and amount. Britain and Germany both began bargaining to buy from Mexico whatever portion of this oil royalty Mexican industry does not consume...