Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressmen are glad to get out of broiling Washington, go home in the summer. In Mexico, Congressmen are glad to escape from the broiling lowlands to cool Mexico City and go to work in the summer. Last week diplomats in gold braid, commercial attaches in morning clothes packed the balcony of Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies to hear President Lazaro Cardenas open the regular session of Mexico's 37th Congress. Senators, Deputies, who disdain formal dress as not in keeping with the nation's "social revolution," attended in street clothes...
...lead to eventual nationalization of the industry; 3) agricultural production has increased. The land-division among the peons will be pushed to a conclusion; 4) the Government now has 40 tons of gold in reserve, a coverage of almost 40% on outstanding banknotes. This was the first time in Mexico's history that a President publicly computed the country's gold supply...
...Roosevelt, informed the Mexican Government that "Washington is interested in the situation confronting the petroleum companies." Fear that the U. S. $200,000,000 oil interests, the U. S. $500,000,000 mining interests will be squeezed out by taxation, higher wage demands, has been haunting American industrialists in Mexico during Cardenas' term. Taking the first important formal step affecting U. S.-Mexican relations in four years, the Ambassador warned that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...
Born in Ohio, raised on a New Mexico ranch, he was "married, divorced and bankrupt" before he was 21. After going broke he settled down to work for the Overland used-car agency in Los Angeles until one day he heard that a steam laundry was badly needed in Tampico, Mexico, to wash oil workers' dirty shirts...
After a long, bitter legal battle during which Bubbleman Bowman spent most of his time scuttling around the Gulf of Mexico in a sea-sled, the Pennsylvania State supreme court upheld his reinstatement as president of Gum, Inc. last July. That month Gum, Inc. made $7,472, after six months' earnings of $49,000 on sales estimated at about $800,000. Bubbleman Bowman's only current worry is a suit by his estranged second wife, Ruth, who claims a verbal agreement to a half-interest in his holdings. Last week, after the first arguments were heard, Philadelphians believed...