Word: raza
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...greying Eulalia Guzmán announced in the backwoods village of Ixcateopan that "the remains of the last emperor of the Aztecs have been found" (TIME, Oct. 10), all Mexico went wild. Nearly every town in the country held a special fiesta; on Columbus Day, Dia de la Raza, the discoverer was nearly forgotten in the flowery eulogies of Cuauhtemoc, last chief of the discovered...
...loudest reverberations came from India. Cried Sir Syed Raza Ali, who spent a term in South Africa as India's Agent-General : "Repressive, offensive, objectionable." Said Dr. Narayan Bhaskar Khare, member of the Viceroy's Council in New Delhi: "I wish India was in a position to declare war on South Africa here and now. If I had been able to do so, I would have lost no time in taking an army there...
...athwart Buenos Aires like the shaft of a dumb-bell is the spacious Avenida de Mayo, weighted at one end by the Congressional Building and at the other by Government House. Last week the dumb-bell was joyously surrounded by human myriads. The day was the Fiesta de la Raza (the Festival of the Race), a national holiday in most countries of South America. In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, would for the second time be inaugurated President of the Republic...