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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been holding forth in Texas border towns since he was exiled from Mexico in 1920. He said he would campaign for the Presidency of Mexico exclusively on U. S. soil. Explained Preacher Delgado: "Mexican politics are controlled by opinion in the United States." His platform: return the expropriated oil lands to their onetime U. S. and British holders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Early Start | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...five years (1925-30) the Schlessers slaughtered some 300,000 head of outlaws, salted their meat in 51 -gallon barrels, shipped most of it to Holland and Scandinavia. Hooves, ears, tails were sold for glue and oil; ground bones and scraps for chickenfeed ; hides for baseballs and shoes ; blood for fertilizer; casings for German sausage. Then the day of the wild horse began to wane, and the Schlessers turned to packing beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wild Horse Round-Up | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Exempt from duty: . . . Original paintings in oil, mineral, water, or other colors, pastels, original drawings and sketches in pen, ink, pencil or water colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Utrillo's Duty | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

China, they add, will win IF: 1) the Central Government arms the whole peasantry, whose Communist leanings it mistrusts; 2) the Kuomintang-Communist pact holds; 3) Russia continues to send substantial aid to the Chinese; 4) the U. S. puts an embargo on iron, oil and planes to Japan; 5) England and France do not make a deal to dismember China, as a means of blocking both Japanese imperialism and a possible victory for the Chinese Communists; 6) China does not become another Czecho-Slovakia or Loyalist Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ifs Over China | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

According to an announcement yesterday. Joseph M. Koch, Jr., of Oil City, Pennsylvania, formerly a member of Andovar's fencing team has been elected to captain the Yardling doctors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Koch to Captain '39 Fencers | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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