Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College of the Incarnate Word near San Antonio, Tex. sits Pope Pius' staff commander in the stern fight for Mexican souls, Monsignor Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, still Apostolic Delegate to Mexico, though ousted by its Government (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). Last week in the pages of Catholicism's Commonweal appeared stirring details of soul warfare between State and Church...
...Officially," declared the Apostolic Delegate to Commonweal, "only 300 priests are permitted in all Mexico, to serve 15,000,000 people, of whom nearly 90% were born into the Catholic faith; 300 priests, as compared with 360 generals in the army...
Even less potentially troublesome are the Mexican Ambassador's other problems. Last month Mexico paid the first $500,000 of an agreed $7,000,000 to settle U. S. claims for life and property destroyed in the chaotic years 1910-20. Old Ambassador Josephus Daniels has solidly entrenched himself with Mexican officials by his seeming sympathy with their Six-Year Plan. Cautious and tentative have been Mexican moves against foreign capital (TIME, Feb. 25). Remembering the shady methods employed by some U. S. citizens in acquiring Mexican lands, the State Department is in no hurry to make trouble about...
Married. Salvador Franco Urias, attorney; and Jesus Navarro; as proxies for Ludwig Lewisohn, author (Up Stream, Mid-Channel') and Thelma Bowman Spear, singer; in Juarez, Mexico, where in absentia Novelist Lewisohn obtained a divorce from his first wife, Mrs. Mary Arnold Crocker Childs Lewisohn, Author "Bosworth Crocker." In Poland eleven years ago Novelist Lewisohn obtained a rabbinical divorce, the validity of which has since been questioned. He married Miss Spear, begat a child. The Mexican divorce and proxy marriage were an attempt to legalize his position. Mrs. Lewisohn I, who in 1924 obtained a separation providing $55 a week...
...steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor' which hangs upon the wall." For the improperly educated, Soapy translated the Latin text into real life. When Denver finally decided it was tired of Soapy and his kind, he moved on again, this time to Mexico, where he almost sold old Porfirio Díaz the services of a Mexican Foreign Legion, which Soapy, for a good round sum, was to organize among the riff-raff of the border...