Word: pahl
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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When the shards began to fly last spring Colgate-Palmolive-Peet was innocently turning out "pastillas de Palmolivess" (pronounced Pahl-mo, LEE-vess), the favorite soap of Mexican peasants. At that time Mexican Catholics, alarmed over the missionary activities of Protestant sects, started a new anti-Protestant campaign. Magazines and leaflets labeled Protestants "the advance guard of Yankee Imperialism." Sinarchists burned a Pentecostal church, stoned the members, killed two children. A Methodist convention was bombed with tear gas. Three radio stations refused "protestant" advertising...