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...Congress away when they would be needed next December. Outside of Washington Republicans were not thus careful to stifle their delight. In New Jersey last week David Baird Jr., onetime Senator and now Republican nominee for Governor, made a speech which accurately foreshadowed the Republican campaign note on the mora torium. Said...
...When Harding died in 1923, Congress promptly appropriated $2,500 for a White House portrait. A British artist, Edmund Hodgson Smart, submitted a picture he had painted from life. One delay followed another. The Fine Arts Commission rejected the Smart portrait. After more delays Artist Francis Luis Mora of Gaylordsville, Conn, was commissioned to do another portrait of the late President, using photographs to get the likeness. It was the Mora portrait (see cut) that, seven years late, was hung without ceremony last week. No special lighting was provided. Only the name was inscribed on the frame...
Within 24 hours editors of Mexican dailies who printed the Bishop's statement were threatened by officials with "energetic punishment" should they commit another such offense; and the Government released a press communique declaring that "in the fictitious, measured tone . . . of Seņor Miguel M. de la Mora who calls himself Bishop of San Luis Potosi . . . there prevails the spirit of frank rebellion...
...government considers that Seņor de la Mora is in open rebellion, since the place in which he keeps himself is not even known, and that he is one of the probable directors of the armed movement of Catholic fanatics in the State of Jalisco...
...dead man's character. Archbishop Drossaerts pointed out that Bishop Valdespino had belonged to the colony of Catholic refugees who had fled to San Antonio from the Mexican government. He commented on the poverty in which many of them have died, saying that the Most Rev. Jose Mora y Del Rio, archbishop of the City of Mexico, had three weeks ago "been buried on charity." From the pathetic, Archbishop Drossaerts proceeded to the critical...