Word: taxco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taxco clings to the sharp slope of a barranca on the side of a bleached mountain 75 miles southwest of Mexico City. It looks like a miniature of Toledo in Spain; it is erroneously thought of in the U.S. as Mexico's Provincetown; and it has become by its recent development of exquisite silver crafts Mexico's Florence. Taxco is a tired old gambler of a town that has had just three brief runs of luck in 500 years. Last week the 4,500 Taxquenos, the President and Foreign Minister of the Republic and some 5,000 visitors...
...these activities were supervised by a committee of high local dignitaries-the Governor and Governor-elect of the State of Guerrero, representatives of the committee which preserves Taxco's colonial architecture, and the mayor of the city. But the honorary president of the fiesta was no Mexican. He was Taxco's First Citizen, good-looking William Philip Spratling of New Orleans, the man who brought Taxco its third period of prosperity...
...squirrel hunters of North Carolina and Kentucky can keep Hitler or anyone else off until the Marines arrive and the situation is well in hand") any relation to a member of Congress of the same name who was held up on the auto road between Mexico [City] and Taxco a few years ago? ... If he is the type of squirrel hunter they have in North Carolina, for God's sake give us conscription quick in the States...
...October 1936 Senator Reynolds was robbed of his wrist watch and $200 by bandits near Taxco...