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Meanwhile, in half-a-dozen harbors in the Western Hemisphere, off ports in the Mediterranean, the St. Louis drama was repeated. At Veracruz 327 refugees from Loyalist Spain were landed from the Flandre, 104 German Jews turned back. On the Taurus at Veracruz an exiled Jewish chemist, learning that he could not land, took poison, told the captain he would be dead in two minutes, died. In Buenos Aires, 200 Jewish refugees on the Caporte, the Monte Olivia, the Mendoza, were sent back to Germany...
...late Sculptor Charles Gary Rumsey* and the late Mary Harriman Rumsey,† in a plane crash; near Guadalupe Victoria, Puebla. Mexico. Belittling storm warnings, Flier Roosevelt, on vacation from Harvard, took off from a Mexico City airport with a girl companion, Carlotta Constantine, and Schoolfellow Rumsey, headed for Veracruz, ran into a storm, crashed in a forced landing. Catapulted clear of the wreckage, Carlotta Constantine was taken to a Mexico City hospital with fractures of left...
...More rugged than Brazil's coastal slopes are the rocky volcanic upjuts that wall Mexico City. One rail route down to the Gulf at Veracruz skirts the hills around Tlaxcala, 45 miles east of Mexico City. One morning last week more than 1,000 Government employes and their families, off for a collective workers' Christmas holiday, jammed their way into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled...
...green light by Washington to go ahead with his seizure of foreign properties in Mexico without compensation. Every Mexican remembers the red light which President Woodrow Wilson had flashed on April 21, 1914 from the fighting top of the U. S. S. Arkansas. This signal started the bombardment of Veracruz by ships of U. S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and within a few months unacceptable President Huerta was forced to resign...
...time Bowman got to Tampico a local group had already started a steam laundry, so he bought a little motor boat to pull barges. When this enterprise failed, he and another young American chugged off to Veracruz, conceived the idea of revolutionizing the mahogany trade by floating mahogany logs down the rivers to the Gulf. The two adventurers struggled for several days getting a mahogany log out of the forest into a small stream, where, since mahogany is heavier than water, it immediately sank...