Word: manuel
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...Souls' Protestant Episcopal Church, at 114th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, was once all white. The southward spread of Harlem has turned it Negro by 300 souls to 50. Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon the rector, a lank, thin-lipped onetime curate of Trinity Church named Rev. Rollin Dodd. The vestry ordered Rector Dodd to cease encouraging the Negroes. When he refused the vestry asked him to resign, stopped his salary. When this failed they had the church closed, "for repairs...
...upon seemliness and order in his diocese. Too, he displayed pride last fortnight in the fact that New York has more Negro Episcopalians than any other diocese North or South. Last week he jumped to Rector Dodd's defense, announced he would preach in All Souls'. When Manuel Jesus Roure threatened to keep him out by "legal means," Bishop Manning said, ''I shall be there...
Exactly one year ago Spain's Constituent Assembly drew up the new Republic's Constitutional article providing broadly for "separation of church and State." That same day dynamic, counter-religious Don Manuel Azana became Premier of Spain. Last week he was still Premier-no mean record, considering Spain's tribulations. Firmly entrenched. Premier Azana celebrated his first official birthday by presentation to the Cortes of Spain's new Law of Religious Orders. This act, which Spaniards believed certain to pass, will implement the Constitution's counter-religious clauses, much as the Volstead Act implements...
...Uruguayan Legation held Dr. Ricardo Dolz, Rector of Havana University; and Carlos Manuel de la Cruz...
...behavior consequently is not much different from that of one who, having been robbed of his belongings, is obliged to ask his unjust despoiler for at least the use of them." In Mexico, as elsewhere, anticlericalism is tangled with politics. (In Santander last week Spain's Premier Manuel Azana told a cheering crowd that Spain is a lay state, that religious education will be abolished, a new law of religious congregations passed, and Article 26 of the Constitution, against religious orders, strictly enforced.) "Papalism" helped make bullnecked Plutarco Elias Calles Mexico's boss. Many another politician now employs...