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Next day the Mexican Chamber of Deputies was informed by President Luiz Mora Tovar of the Government's National Revolutionary Party that Catholic rascals and scoundrels in the State of Michoacan had just ambushed and killed 15 Government supporters, "the first called upon to fall while defending the ideals of the Revolution...
...Lime Rock, Conn., Winslow Wilson painted two moppets called The Mora Children, heard his picture would have the place of honor at the annual art show. Opening day, Painter George Glenn Newell's cow picture Clear and Cold had the best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
...this occasion the Smoker Committee secured the services of George Watts, a negro dancer; Raymond Pike, a juggler; and Lewis Mora, a magician. A large supply of pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, and refreshments were provided. When the Class had assembled Garrow T. Geer, Jr., toastmaster and Chairman of the Smoker Committee, introduced the three officers of the class: Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr., president; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., vice-president; and Anthony S. J. Tomasello, secretary-treasurer, who made short speeches...
...several outside entertainers, the annual Freshman Smoker will be held tonight in the dining room of the Union, at 8 o'clock. The committee, headed by Garrow T. Geer, has acquired the services of Raymond Pike, a juggler, George Watts, a negro comedian and dancer, and Lewis Mora, a magician, who will furnish the entertainment...
...sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero & villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters are in Mora and most of its membership within New Mexico. In almost every Mexican village, says Fergusson. there is an apparently deserted building, the Morada, headquarters of the Penitentes. "Nowadays one may see only the whipping of bare and lacerated backs and the crucifixion of an image but what goes on in the night...