Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William E. Gilkey, Jr., Chickasha, Oklahoma--New Mexico Military Institute Junior College...
...arms, Orator Toledano hurled imprecations at the enemies of labor. The Mexicanos were enthusiastic, but not enough to suit Toledano. Dramatically pausing, the fiery-eyed labor leader leaned forward on the rostrum to grip his listeners once more. He was going to tell them something. The Government of Mexico, his roar rose to crescendo, faces danger, immediate danger, danger of a Fascist plot-a plot in which high officials of the Government are involved...
...months, radicals led by sour-faced General Francisco Mujica, Minister of Communications & Public Works, and Toledano have been hurling charges of "Fascist" against 240-lb. Cedillo. Backed in his home state of San Luis Potosi by 7,000 men, the last private army in Mexico and apparently in high favor with President Cárdenas, Cedillo felt secure. His agrarian army was largely responsible for booting out party-boss and former President Plutarco Elias Calles in 1934, replacing him with liberal-minded Cardenas. Time & again, the blustering General Cedillo, riled at Leftist indictments, handed in his resignation, but Cardenas refused...
...Finally seven names were left. In one group three Federal Circuit Court judges: Sam Gilbert Bratton of New Mexico, Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Texas, Samuel Hale Sibley of Georgia, and Chief Justice Walter Parker Stacy of North Carolina's Supreme Court. In another, three integral cogs of the New Deal: U. S. Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed of Kentucky, Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black of Alabama...
...hostesses "Zephyrettes." They wear pearl-grey uniforms, overseas caps, flowers in buttonholes. Before the train starts they greet passengers on the platform, show them to their locations, go through the train with the conductor to see that everyone is comfortable. The Burlington once had 1,500 applications (some from Mexico and Canada) for twelve jobs. A Burlington requirement, in addition to amiability and pleasing appearance, is "self-confidence...