Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spark from this fire ignited some excelsior which had been left carelessly under a box car on a siding less than 100 feet from the watchmen's shanty. The freight car was loaded with small shells which exploded and set fire to other cars. Finally a car loaded with black powder in the very centre of the yard exploded and after that everything went...
...difficulty in learning the who-what-where of the affair. In the U. S. the New York Times would publish dignified front-page headlines-and all the ghastly details. But in Mexico City, used though the people are to blood and violence, the biggest and best Mexican newspaper, El Excelsior, would omit the episode altogether...
This situation is only a week old. El Excelsior has hitherto joined with other Mexican dailies in playing up crime at its goriest. But thoughtful Mexicans have been saying that the press may be to blame for such Mexican wrongdoing. El Excelsior last week voluntarily took this view, announced it would suppress all news of crime. Good Mexicans thought this action well befitted the daily whose circulation (61.500) and influence are the largest in the land. Well pleased was Editor Manuel L. Barragan to be able to reprint a feather for Excelsior's sombrero, a letter from President Ortiz...