Word: garza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pine-paneled, air-conditioned office, Eugenio Garza, president of Monterrey's big Cuauthémoc Brewery, reached for the phone and began calling numbers in the city's well-filled business directory. What he had to say was brief and to the point: "Tecnológico needs more money." In the next mail came the first trickle of what later amounted to a flood of checks made out to Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican model-complete to the famed initials-of the U.S.'s Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Bespectacled, greying Brewer Garza, who heads the governing board of Monterrey's M.I.T., began plugging for the school soon after graduating from the U.S.'s M.I.T. in 1914. Not until 1943, when the war boom left them desperately short of technical help, did his fellow industrialists in Monterrey take him seriously. Even then, it required persuasive arguing ("You'll be insuring the future industry of the country") to get a dozen of the biggest companies to pledge a total of $2,200,000 for buildings and grounds, plus a percentage of their annual income for operating expenses...
...Raffles. By offering adequate salaries, a decided innovation in Mexican education, Garza put together a top-grade faculty. From the beginning, entrance requirements were high and student charges low (a top of $20 a month for tuition, $60 for room and board), with plenty of scholarships available to qualified applicants from anywhere in Mexico...
...Lorenzo Garza picked up his sword and for the tenth time prepared to try to kill this bull, there were so many bottles and cushions falling that he could not go on. The next thing Lorenzo Garza knew, he was standing by the barrera and the steers were trying to take the bull away. When the bull would not go with the steers, they brought in a cowboy, but the cowboy with his lasso was no better than Lorenzo Garza had been with the estoque and they brought in the steers again. After what seemed a long while to Lorenzo...
...Mexico City last week, the peculiarly Spanish democracy of the bull ring manifested itself and caused a small, black bull, like Ferdinand, to be sent to spend the rest of its life among the flowers and the cows, and Lorenzo Garza, El Magnifico, to be fined 1,000 pesos for making obscene gestures to the sovereign aficionados of Mexico...