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...Church, Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, was last week in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from an operation on his gall bladder. The leader of the Church's counterattack, fat, sloe-eyed Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...
...well, I'm resigned to my fate. By the way," he added, "did I tell you that I used to receive a flock of telegrams after my broadcasts, asking me how I could say such crazy things? I used to, but since I went into the movies, that's all changed...
...white-maned at 69, "Reverent" Powell (as many a parishioner calls him) is accustomed to rule his flock like a benign autocrat. Indeed he and his officers are empowered to declare vacant any of the numerous posts in the church. But last week Pastor Powell was meeting open defiance-from the Friendly Society's president, a tall, blue-black West Indian named Samuel Skerritt. Six months ago, recalling that the Friendly Society books had not been audited for four years, Pastor Powell asked for a look at them. Samuel Skerritt seemed evasive. And when Pastor Powell kept on asking...
...step down in the journalistic scale. Said he defensively: "I don't know anything about this picture-paper business, and it's time I learned. It's a faster game than I've ever been in, and I'm going to lose a whole flock of inhibitons. If some ideas I have should work out, this will be the goddamndest paper you ever...
...Light, invest about $600 per home in transmission lines and equipment, while each farmer was to put $200 into lamps, irons, washing machines, water pumps. How were the farmers to raise the money? Why, said Mr. Couch, let each farmer's wife add 20 good hens to her flock. The onetime RFC director had been studying hens. Eggs from five good hens, said he, would pay for the lighting. Two hens could lay enough to cover the cost of running the iron; another two could pay for the washing; three for the water pumping. Eggs from the rest would...