Word: morelia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years. An eye opener for U. S. adepts of "selective indignation"* was a photograph circulated last week. It showed a group of Mexican and U. S. prelates, gathered in the patio of the home of Mexico's Archbishop Luis M. Martinez. He and the Archbishop of Morelia wore their soutanes because, presumably, they were staying indoors. The others wore sack suits and neckties...
...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 Mexicans, mostly Indians and mestizos...
...same lobby Grace's sister Marion, 25, is working on Fruits & Vegetables. Both sisters went to Manhattan's Art Students' League but while Grace finished her studies in Paris and Italy, Marion wandered to Mexico. Last year both did frescoes for the Michoacan State capital in Morelia. A faster worker than her sister, Marion last week started on her third wall. Her peasants, a little looser in the joints than Grace's, bring to market bags of papaya, cashew fruit, guava, yams, cabbages, carrots and bananas. Among Fruits & Vegetables Marion includes a few fish...
Michoacan, on the Pacific Ocean, is one of the least known of Mexico's 28 states. Yet there is hardly a Mexican schoolboy who is not familiar, for one reason or another, with Morelia, its capital city. There 152 years ago was born Don Agustin de Iturbide. Not even a name north of the Rio Grande, Don Iturbide was a minor Mussolini 100 years ahead of his time. He became dictator of Mexico, was proclaimed Emperor Agustin I only one year after the last Spanish viceroy was driven out. Emperor Agustin reigned for only one winter, left for Europe...