Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion picture story, "First to Fight," based in part on the U. S. war with Tripoli and the capture of Derna, and covering the period up to and including the participation of Marines, "picked men, to lead the storming of Chapultepec under Major Twiggs and Captain McDonald Reynolds," at Mexico City in 1847; i.e., "From the Halls of Montexuma to the Shores of Tripoli...
Whole Hog, Abruptly from Rome this week came official press outbursts which many Fascists thought presaged whole-hog intervention in Spain by Italy to wipe out the stain of the "Little Caporetto." Il Duce's newsorgans smeared Russia, France and Mexico with charges that those Governments have run arms to the Spanish Leftists in a whole list of instances which the Rome press hotly particularized, roasting especially "France's flagrant violations of the neutral Non-intervention accord signed at London...
Putting his Philadelphia Athletics through their training paces in Mexico City, 74-year-old Manager Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy ("Connie Mack") was hit in the right shin by a ball, injured so painfully that he was whisked by train to a San Antonio hospital on a stretcher...
Pius XI is presumably aware that, in considering the state of the Catholic Church in Mexico and Spain, not only liberal Protestants but many liberal Catholics are disinclined to blame it all on the "Reds." Last month the Catholic World, published by the Paulist Fathers, took a different line from most of the U. S. Catholic press regarding Spain: "Was the religion of the people of Madrid so superficial and their intelligence so benighted that a half-hundred aliens from the North could come down with a few pocketfuls of rubles and a supply of Marxian pamphlets and win over...
Nowhere damning Mexico's Government as tyrannical-as he once was wont to- the Pope seemed to be pressing a policy of hopeful moderation which he exhibited last month in appointing a friend of President Lazaro Cardenas, Most Rev. Luis Maria Martinez, to be Archbishop of Mexico, D. F. To Mexican Catholics the Pope's advice was: "Be good to the poor, to workers, to Indians; promote application of the principles of justice and charity; eliminate abuses, at the same time guarding against violent changes which only would cause harm instead of good...