Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the United States, Canada leads with 47 students, followed by China, 27; England, 21; Hawaii, 19; France, 11; Puerto Rico, 8; Germany, 8; Mexico, 7; Belgium, 4; and Turkey, 4. Other countries, Colombia, Estonia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Alaska, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Philippine Islands, Santo Domingo, Scotland, Siam, Spain, Straits Settlements, Sweden, South Africa, Roumania, and Syria...
...Venerable Brothers and Beloved Sons," began last week's Pastoral Letter, signed by Archbishop Pascual Diaz and all Catholic archbishops and bishops in Mexico. Its point: "No Catholic can be a Socialist, understanding by socialism the philosophical, economic or social system which, in one form or another, does not recognize the rights of God and the Church, nor the natural right of every man to possess the goods he has acquired by his work or has inherited legitimately, or which foments hatred and the unjust struggle of classes...
...Pastoral Letter challenges flatly the Act of 1934 making compulsory throughout Mexico education of a Socialist type, including explanation by grade school teachers of the care and use of sexual organs. Against this, in the case of young children, the abhorrence of the Church is maximum. Further, last week's Pastoral Letter explicitly declared that for a Catholic to be a Socialist, or study or teach Socialism, or cooperate to Socialist ends, or even for appearance's sake to feign to approve Socialism, is to commit a "mortal...
Same day Socialist President Cardenas chanced to be obeying the Biblical injunction to beat swords into plowshares. Since an immense quantity of antiquated, rusting and useless munitions has piled up from Mexico's revolutions, the President recently ordered experiments to see if serviceable plows could be made from antiquated cannon. After seeing some of the experimental plows pass rigorous tests last week, President Cardenas ordered 300 tons of old cannon forged into 10,000 plows...
...baldish, hard-driving man of 44, Colonel Gorrell was graduated from West Point and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went to chase Pancho Villa in Mexico as adjutant of the ist Aero Squadron. In the War he fought on all five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned...