Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backhand shots McGrath held his racket with both hands. For a first-class tennist to do such a thing was so unthinkable that tennis experts, instead of trying to explain it, simply regarded McGrath as an antipodean freak. Last week this point of view was confirmed when in Mexico City an Australian team played Mexico in the first round of the Davis Cup tournament. On the team was another Australian who held his racket with both hands...
...plays shots on his right side with both hands (see cut). Like 21-year-old McGrath, Bromwich is not only a freak but a prodigy. He was just 16 when he won the South Australian championship two years ago, beating Adrian Quist and Don Turnbull, seasoned Australian internationalists. In Mexico City last week Bromwich's Davis Cup debut was a severe thrashing for Mexico's Esteban Reyes, 6-2, 6-2, 7-5. Four other victories, in which his teammates (McGrath, Quist, Crawford) lost only one set, put Australia in the second round, five matches to none...
...Mexico and South America bullfighting still goes on. But for matadors those countries have always been mere provinces. In Spain, the land where bulls are much more than bulls and matadors a little more than men, 1937 promised to be the worst season in history. Gripped by the passion of civil war, Spain had little time or temper for its national "sport." But to many an aficionado, the great days of bullfighting had already gone over the horizon with Joselito and Belmonte, long before the civil war closed most of the bull rings. To observers with long memories and high...
With the installation of Archbishop Martínez-a Mexican-educated friend of President Lázaro Cárdenas and a moderate, law-abiding churchman-Mexico's religious situation remained comparatively tranquil, the long-term outlook became more favorable to the Church than it had been in years. In Vera Cruz, where an unconstitutional statute forbidding any priest to exercise his office is still on the books, Catholics had opened ten churches, were negotiating to install ten priests. Father José Maria Flores, who stirred Vera Cruz Catholics to action when a 14-year-old girl had been...
...Mexico, churchmen claimed they defeated a bill to legalize gambling, took credit for laws banning curb sales of liquor, providing Sunday closing of bars...