Word: florez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cruising car pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter de Florez, an air gun modeled on a German Luger pistol, a supply of pellets twice the size of ordinary BB shot. At the police station whither he was taken on a charge of assault & battery, Sniper Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt was asked to identify himself, replied: "The other Roosevelt, for a change...
...however, the Cathedral. Three and a half centuries had weakened the structure. Its use had become dangerous. The chapter took advantage of the cessation of worship to reinforce weakened portions. Last week repairs were sufficient for safety. Archbishop Pascual Diaz, primate of Mexico, and Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Florez, Apostolic Delegate to Mexico, were ready to celebrate a high pontifical mass. They gave a signal. The bellringers boomed their bells. The worshipers flocked in, un- persuaded until that moment that their faith was really re-established in Mexico...