Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JUAN DE LOS PARLOTES Rio Piedras...
...turn of the year Denver & Rio Grande Western (mileage: 2,571) defaulted on a $40,000,000 bond issue but under the terms of the indenture was allowed a 60-day period of grace to make good. Last week that grace period expired without action. Though the bondholders may now throw the road into receivership, the directors hastily announced that a reorganization plan would be ready within a month...
...days, perhaps before this letter reaches you, Rossi and Codos will take off for a nonstop flight to Rio, in their five-year-old plane, with an engine which has already flown 1,000 hours, and if they too succeed, then there will be great rejoicing chez Isnardon, and the wings of France will once more be lifted toward the stars...
...employed by some U. S. citizens in acquiring Mexican lands, the State Department is in no hurry to make trouble about the recent occupation by Mexicans of a few U. S.-owned ranches. There remain for Ambassador Castillo Najera the trifling matters of dividing the waters of the lower Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, of keeping sewage out of the Tia Juana River, of settling the Chamizal boundary dispute at El Paso, Tex., of negotiating a trade treaty...
...Ambassador Daniels advances the cause of socialistic education in Mexico by openly commending recent speeches made by the President of Mexico favoring a socialistic State. Mr. Daniels personally is a very charming man. He possesses real gifts as a journalist and a politician, but the situation south of the Rio Grande calls for a genuine diplomat of the highest order, and unfortunately Mr. Daniels is not that. Socialism, the restriction of a free press, the squashing of class rights are not subjects upon which any ambassador representing the American Government should utter public comment, whether laudatory or otherwise...