Word: veracruz
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...good fellowship and sentiment. The Founder's grandson, Wilder Dwight Bancroft, famed Cornell chemist, made a speech. From a fleet of submarine chasers and launches a "White"' force of midshipmen swept up the Severn to rout "Blue" defenders in a re-enactment of the capture of Veracruz. In the afternoon Navy's football team beat University of Virginia's, 26-to-7. In the evening the Academy's superintendent, Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers, addressed by radio the entire U. S. Fleet. The day ended with The Star-Spangled Banner and many a proud salute...
...State of Veracruz, which has been in continuous turmoil since preliminary State elections on Aug. 18, at least 30 persons have been killed in political shootings...
Eagle's troubles took on the quality of slapstick when at the same time Eagle workmen in the State of Veracruz presented the greediest set of labor demands in world history. Plainly hatched in the baroque imagination of some Mexico City politician, they threatened a strike unless Eagle gave its workers: 1) a 25% cut of the profits; 2) a workers' polo field and a stable of polo ponies; 3) an 18-hole golf course; 4) a swimming pool and complete athletic equipment; 5) a technical school; 6) a share in the management; 7) annual free round-trips...
When President Roosevelt had the good judgment to send them Mr. Daniels, Mexicans could see at first only that they were expected to receive the Yanqui* who was Secretary of the Navy when it bombarded Veracruz in 1914. Ambassador Daniels was called a "living insult" to Mexico-last year. Today the politicos of Mexico City can scarcely believe they ever were so dumb...
Adalberzo Tejeda's word is all but law in the oil-rich coastal State of Veracruz. He subscribes to the "regular" Mexican politics of Socialism and atheism, but he is drastic and immediate about it. In 1932, as Governor of Veracruz, he pushed through the State Legislature a law subjecting "property rights of all classes of possessions ... to enforced expropriation for reasons of social utility, with indemnification." At this great grab even Calles' Federal politicians were appalled. They ordered Tejeda to back down. He pondered the law. finally changed the word "social" to "public" and signed...