Word: marts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freight war (making it cheaper to ship pepper to the U. S. than to Europe) to steer many pepper consignments to New York instead of London. For years the world's largest pepper user (30%), the U. S. then for the first time displaced England as a pepper mart. This led logically to last week's establishment of pepper trading on the busy floor of the New York Produce Exchange...
...When he had finished he unexpectedly dismissed the press, asked that the microphones before him be deadened, and in a suspenseful silence gave a confidential extempore talk which every delegate present was soon itching to get onto a cable. Particularly itchy was Cuba's brand-new Ambassador Pedro Martínez Fraga, for the substance of Good Neighbor Roosevelt's remarks was that he would under no circumstances be prevailed upon to intervene in the affairs of Cuba...
...Mexico City last week the huge front doors of the nation's chief Cathedral groaned on their hinges, swung open as they do only when an Archbishop is installed or dies. In walked a lean, dark man with horn-rimmed spectacles, Archbishop-elect Luis Maria Martínez y Rodríguez, raised by Pope Pius XI from bishop coadjutor of the provincial diocese of Morelia to be Catholic primate of Mexico (TIME, April 5). Within the Cathedral were hundreds of clergy, wearing habits and vestments rarely permitted them in public during recent years, and thousands of poor, pious...
Under a canopy of gold and silver the Archbishop-elect marched with a procession to the high altar where a papal bull was read to him, formally announcing his appointment. After Mass, Archbishop Martínez began to sermonize. Just as the primate, whose cheerful grin for photographers belies his sober preoccupation with canon law and theology, reached the point where he promised "to comply with the desires of the Catholic people of Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into...
With the installation of Archbishop Martínez-a Mexican-educated friend of President Lázaro Cárdenas and a moderate, law-abiding churchman-Mexico's religious situation remained comparatively tranquil, the long-term outlook became more favorable to the Church than it had been in years. In Vera Cruz, where an unconstitutional statute forbidding any priest to exercise his office is still on the books, Catholics had opened ten churches, were negotiating to install ten priests. Father José Maria Flores, who stirred Vera Cruz Catholics to action when a 14-year-old girl had been...