Word: marts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Violence & Faith. To affable, middle-aged Protestant Bishop Ruesga the incident was just an incident in the continuous, often violent conflict between Mexico's 20,000,000 Catholics and 180,000 Protestants. To the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, Luis María Martínez, the tragedy at Santiago Yeche deserved Christian condemnation. Said he: "The Catholic faith is defended and extended through prayer, instruction and good example. . . . The Christian spirit is the spirit of charity, and charity is sweet and prudent...
...start of the depression. He sold 1,010 suites the first day. But buyers did not think the seller's market in furniture would last much beyond the year's end. Already there were signs of change. Said Wallace 0. Oilman, general manager of the Merchandise Mart: "There is no longer the hurried mad rush for 'anything...
...election day last week was orderly, the polling apparently honest. The result was a smashing victory for President Ramón Grau San Martín's left-wing regime, his Auténtico Party and Communist supporters. Grau's man, Manuel Fernandez Supervielle, won Havana's mayorship, the island's No. 2 political job. Most of the island's 125 new mayors would also be Grau men. Apparently enough Grau legislative candidates won to give the President, for the first time, a majority in Congress...
...Orleans businessmen, with eyes cocked toward Latin America, have already plunked down $200,000 to buy two adjoining buildings in the business district, pledged themselves to plunk down $750,000 more to remodel them into a slick, air-conditioned home for a new International Trade Mart. Object: a year-round display of Mississippi Valley products...
Chep Morrison has talking points: the plans for a $200,000,000 deepwater seaway, a free-trade zone like New York's, and an International Trade Mart to match the culturally and socially successful International House. Airwise, the city has bid for leadership by building Moisant International Airport, the only major U.S. municipal field to be completed during the war. New Orleans still sends only two flights south each day to rival Miami's 34, but when four-engined stratospheric giants take over the Latin American shuttle, Moisant's 7,000-ft. runway will be an insignificant...