Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldest Catholic settlements in North America. Much of its color and history has been set down by Novelist Willa Gather in Death Comes for the Archbishop. Nearly a century ago Father John B. Lamy (Father Jean Marie Latour in the book) was sent to take the district from Mexican ecclesiastical control, build it as an independent vicariate Apostolic. A gentle, ascetic priest in buckskins, he made friends with Kit Carson, brought the church to many who had long been unchurched, became Santa Fe's archbishop in 1875, built Santa Fe's cathedral, died...
...relaying messages from Expedition Commander Major John A. Robenson in the vanguard to officers in the rear, another connecting the column with Fort Bliss at El Paso. When the caravan reached Terlingua the horses were unloaded and the cavalry proceeded under their own power 15 mi. to the Mexican border. A significant experiment in army transportation, the expedition indicated that U. S. borders could be protected by distant major posts, thus eliminating the cost of permanent border forts...
Married. Consuelo Pani, daughter of Alberto J. Pani, Mexico's Minister of Finance, chairman of the Mexican delegation to the late World Monetary & Economic Conference; and Diego Covarrubias (first cousin of famed Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias), son of the late Miguel Covarrubias, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Great Britain, brother-in- law of Rinaldo de Lima e Silva, Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S.; in Mexico City...
...became the absolute dictator of New Mexico; indefatigable Bishop Lamy, hero of Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; Billy the Kid, who "briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero & villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters...
...Naval Academy he overstrained himself in athletics, was granted an honorable discharge; later (1915) he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with honors as a Bachelor of Science in economics. After a job with the Bell Telephone Co. he enlisted in the National Guard, saw active service along the Mexican border and went to France as first lieutenant of infantry with the A. E. F. Badly wounded and invalided home, Allen settled after the War in Charleston, S. C., where he collaborated with DuBose Hey ward on a book of poems (Carolina Chansons) and in founding the Poetry Society...