Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico City last week the huge front doors of the nation's chief Cathedral groaned on their hinges, swung open as they do only when an Archbishop is installed or dies. In walked a lean, dark man with horn-rimmed spectacles, Archbishop-elect Luis Maria Martínez y Rodríguez, raised by Pope Pius XI from bishop coadjutor of the provincial diocese of Morelia to be Catholic primate of Mexico (TIME, April 5). Within the Cathedral were hundreds of clergy, wearing habits and vestments rarely permitted them in public during recent years, and thousands of poor, pious...
...formally announcing his appointment. After Mass, Archbishop Martínez began to sermonize. Just as the primate, whose cheerful grin for photographers belies his sober preoccupation with canon law and theology, reached the point where he promised "to comply with the desires of the Catholic people of Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into the 364- year-old crypt below. While brown-faced Boy Scouts scurried after the injured, helped the unharmed scramble from the pit and calmed the other...
...know, some States, particularly in the West, require all commercial vehicles from out-of-state to register and pay a fee to cross the State. Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, etc. all have control stations at the State line with State officers on duty. All commercial vehicles are assessed according to weight and type of vehicle. These fees are reasonable and I have heard no complaints from other salesmen about these States. Mississippi, however, is operating a vicious racket which is taking thousands of dollars a year from salesmen. And I mean the salesmen, not the companies they work...
...news to assure them that the 1937 major-league season would start in Boston (Bees v. Phillies) and Washington (Senators v. Athletics) April 19, one day before the other teams start functioning. Meanwhile last week, 16 major-league teams, moving north from their camps in Florida, Cuba, Texas, Louisiana. Mexico and Southern California, were winding up their series of exhibition games while baseball experts, governed by ancient tradition, predicted how the teams would stand when the 1937 season ends...
...launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given a 6?-per-hr. raise. Reason: nearly 100 Electras have been sold in the U. S., Rumania, Poland, New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico and England...