Word: laredos
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...modern standards Aerovias would be rated as a puny operation. It has a lone DC-3 in service, another in the shops being converted from an Army transport. Its single line from Mexico City north to Nuevo Laredo on the Rio Grande is only 569 miles long, takes only four and a half hours to fly. It will have no more planes to fly the line until it gets them from the U.S. Army...
...training at the Catholic University in Washington and at St. Meinrad's Seminary of the Benedictine order in Indiana. Upon his ordination in 1924, he began his ministry in the diocese of Corpus Christi, Texas, ultimately becoming chancellor to the bishop and pastor of gigantic St. Peter's Church, Laredo, where his interest in education has found expression in the founding of a parochial school and a convent academy, both accredited to the University of Texas. For the past ten years, prior to his detail as instructor at the Chaplain School two months ago, he has been a chaplain...
...private citizen, least of all a newspaper publisher, has ever before been decorated twice by the Mexican Government. First to make the grade is the Laredo (Texas) Times's Publisher William Prescott Allen, a collateral descendant of the historian William Prescott (The Conquest of Mexico). Fortnight ago he got the Order of the Aztec Eagle (Sixth Class),† plus a medal never before awarded to a civilian, Mexican or otherwise: the Military Order of Merit (Second Class...
...Laredo Times sells no more than 11,000 copies, but 3,500 of them go across the border into Mexico. Only one other Border paper (El Paso's Herald-Post) is printed partly in Spanish. Allen became the darling of Mexico when it expropriated U.S. oil holdings. He took Mexico's side-a move which very nearly got him ostracized by furious Texas oilmen...
This week Publisher Allen was preparing a gala blowout in Laredo for Mexican Defense Minister ex-President Lazaro Car-lenas, on tour of Mexico war plants. Also invited were Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commanding the U.S. Third Army, the Air Forces' Major General Hubert Harmon, other military bigwigs...