Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Daniels they have found the weightiest approver of Mexico's radical and anticlerical Six-Year Plan. He has called it roundly "a new deal and a square deal!" Moreover, to the joy of Mexican silver interests, President Roosevelt has raised the price of silver. He has also recognized the Soviet Union, considered by Mexicans the spearhead of all that is Godless...
Pointing out that the number of priests in the Federal District has been reduced to 25 and eliminated entirely in the States of Tabasco, Zacatecas, Sonora, Chiapas, Vera Cruz, Campechi and Queretaro, the U.S. prelates charged that the churches, schools and dwellings of their Mexican fellows have been expropriated. Denied to all Catholics are the rights of free assembly, free press and free worship and to the clergy, in addition, the right of franchise and even the solace of religious life. Since foreign clergymen are outlawed and native Mexicans prohibited from studying for the priesthood, the Mexican priesthood would soon...
Urging the faithful to pray for an end of the persecution, the prelates did not forget U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels whom many a Catholic has accused of publicly giving aid and comfort to the Mexican Government (TIME, Oct. 15 et seq.). Omitting specific mention of that aging Methodist, a paragraph in the hierarchy's statement was aimed straight at him: "We cannot but deplore the expressions unwittingly offered, at times, of sympathy with and support of governments and policies which are absolutely at variance with our own American principles. They give color to the boast of the supporters...
...Mexican of Spanish descent, I would greatly resent having this term applied to me, and I think that any other New Mexican would feel the same...
...least as long as 85 years ago Westerners called Mexicans "greasers," according to Ruxton's Life Far West, "from their greasy appearance." The name stuck to the poorer class of Mexican, and in that sense TIME characterized Senator Bronson Cutting as "the faithful friend of the lowly 'greaser...