Word: moraes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week of doubtful sport was afforded readers of the World and Times of Manhattan by an open quarrel between those august news organs as to whether a certain written interview obtained "exclusively" by the World had actually been drafted by the venerable Archbishop of Mexico, the Very Reverend Jose Mora y del Rio. The Times contended that the real author was the Archbishop's vigorous field generalissimo, Bishop Diaz. The World repudiated this aspersion with indignation. Readers of both newspapers grew weary of the controversy. Finally a rumor, subsequently squelched, spread that the Archbishop would be prosecuted for sedition...
Hurry! The Most Reverend José Mora y del Rio, Archbishop of Mexico, met the challenge of July 31 in the manner prescribed for the captain of a sinking ship- stuck to his cathedral...