Word: pesos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this correction. There is no 500 peso fine for wearing clerical garb in the U. S., thank God! The gracious and pious Mr. Daniels, Ambassador of the U. S. in Mexico, honored and received us at the Embassy as churchmen, i.e., sans mufti...
...America, and turn bad ones into good ones, the U. S. lately has lavished foofaraw and funds on Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua. Last week in Washing ton, Paraguay's President-elect José Félix Estigarribia got his share: a $500,000 credit to bolster the wavering Paraguayan peso, plus further loans to finance purchases of U. S. materials, machinery, services for Paraguayan roads and industry...
Chileans who fail to vote are black-listed as civic-duty dodgers and have to pay a 100-peso ($5) fine. Consequently, last week most of them turned out to vote in a typical South American election which picked a successor to stern, small-eyed President Arturo Alessandri Rodriguez, forbidden by law to succeed himself...
...Elizaldes are the islands' richest Spanish family. Commissioner "Mike," though born in Manila (1896), was schooled in Spain, served in the Spanish Army, still wears a military haircut. Five years ago he became a Philippine citizen to protect the family business, Elizalde & Co. Inc., a 10,000,000-peso corporation engaged in the hemp, sugar, coconuts, lumber, mining, ranching, shipping, distilling, insurance, etc. business. To President Quezon (whom "Mike" Elizalde calls "one of the greatest men in the world"), his country's future problems seem more economic than political. So whom better could he have in Washington than...
...only flaws in all this from the peons' standpoint are: 1) this kind of Government finance has been so hard on the peso that prices are rapidly rising, the cost of living soaring; 2) there are complaints that Government underlings, not imbued with Cárdenas' high ideals, are behaving like unscrupulous landlords in the U. S., keeping the books so that illiterate peons still stay in debt even after their crops are harvested; 3) in some cases peons incapable of farming without a landlord's direction, are raising smaller crops than ever before on the same...