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...arena on a cayuse, Picket jumped on the back of the charging bull, sank his teeth in the bull's nose,, within seven minutes was sitting on its head. To avert a brawl between side-betting Mexican sports and Col. Miller's show hands, President Porfirio Diaz gave Picket a military escort, guaranteed the prize money...
CONQUISTADOR-Archibald MacLeish- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). To Octogenarian Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a conquistador retired to his estate in Guatemala, there came from Spain Francisco Lopez de Gomara's account of Cortes' Mexican expedition of 1519. The old lion Bernal was aroused. Who was this fine young Professor de Gomara, to be making charts out of battles and histories out of men? Old Bernal fought those battles, knew those men. He could make them live again-blood, bones, the light in their eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History...
...bill and a letter. The bill, passed unanimously by the Senate and House of Mexico (TIME, Jan. 4), provided that in the Federal District and Territories of Mexico no creed should be represented by more than one clergyman per 50,000 population. The letter was from Most Reverend Pascual Diaz, Catholic Archbishop of Mexico. It urged the President to veto the bill...
...reality it does not merit the name of law," promptly declared Catholic Archbishop Pascual Diaz, in a pastoral letter to his flock. "It does not merit the name of law, since if it is judged from the Catholic viewpoint it is contrary to the 'just ordination of reason' of which every law should consist; it opposes the positive dispositions of God and the teachings of the Church, the authentic and infallible organ established by Jesus Christ our Lord...
Archbishop Pascual Diaz further contended that the law is in violation of the peace between Church and State arranged by the late Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow (TIME. July 1, 1929), under which Catholic churches (closed throughout Mexico for three years) were reopened. The peace agreement unquestionably authorized Mexican State legislatures to limit the number of their clergy, and six States have already done so; but Archbishop Pascual Diaz contended that the right to limit does not extend to the Federal Congress of Mexico...