Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often that the United States has a chance to influence its neighbor beyond the Rio Grande to any great extent. For years conquests, diplomatic overtures, punitive expeditions, and commercial ventures have had equally little effect on either the thoughts or the actions of our sister republic. During the period since the Mexican War, the inhabitants of this tumultuous Spanish-American land, when they have meditated about our relations with them, have said to themselves with a shrug--"gringos--huh", and let it go at that. In spite of our proximity, we have failed surprisingly in all attempts directed toward...
...manned by men from the Cape. But the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, the days of the clipper ships, were the days of Cape Cod's glory. Boys went to sea at the age of twelve, and often became captains before they were twenty-one. A man who was in Rio de Janerio in the Fifties once told me that of the fifty-six ships he once saw flying the American flag in the harbor of Rio, forty-eight were commanded by Cape Coders...
There is no question of the feeling of the people of the United States toward Mexico. Insult has followed insult, murder has followed murder until the title of "Civis Americans" within walking distance of the Rio Grande has almost been the equivalent of a death warrant. It seems ages since we commenced "watchfully waiting." If there were ever any virtue in that milk and water policy it has long since passed away...
...such necessity will arise. The upheaval only furnishes one more proof of the futility of transplanted ideas of government. Whole sections of Mexican constitutions have been copied almost verbatim from our own; but unfortunately the development of actual institutions has not been the same on both sides of the Rio Grande...