Word: orizaba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Kennedy, 21, second son of President Roosevelt's alert Ambassador Joe, was shot by his sire from London up to Glasgow last week to help interview survivors of the sunken S. S. Athenia. He was authorized to say that the U. S. steamer Orizaba was being sent over to fetch the Athenians home. The neutral yacht Stella Polaris was also being sought from Raymond-Whitcomb Travel Service (world tours...
...behave. Many were dead; others, like Dictator Porfirio Diaz' son Felix, are back already. The invitation did not include ex-Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, now sojourning in California, who was never charged with a specific, forgivable crime. Just as good feeling began to run high an incident in Orizaba, State of Veracruz, made President Cárdenas jumpier than ever...
...Mexico's States modify their severe anti-Catholic laws which keep that great Church hamstrung. Chihuahua permits only one priest in the entire State; Veracruz one for each 100,000 of population. Both forbid religious services entirely but services are always going on. One morning last week in Orizaba, police, acting on undetermined authority, surrounded a house where Father José María Flores was illegally celebrating Mass. As his congregation of 58 women and four men began to leave, the police opened fire. Down dropped 14-year-old Leonor Sanchez and Orizaba's Catholics...
That news spread so fast through Veracruz that the next afternoon found 15,000 Catholics swarming menacingly in Orizaba, routing guards and forcing their way into the city's 14 closed churches, frantically ringing bells that had been silent for a decade. Hastily the city authorities canceled a Mardi Gras celebration that would have brought thousands more Catholics into town. Veracruz's youthful new Governor Miguel Alemán was so besieged during a visit to the Orizaba city hall that he slipped out a side door and made for nearby Córdoba. Apparently to stall...