Word: peons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture whittled out of the gigantic 243,000-ft. opus which Director Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein made in Mexico over two years ago. In silent form with a musical accompaniment, it investigates a minor miscarriage of social justice on a Mexican hacienda toward the end of the last century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into which she has been tossed. They fail and scamper away...
Rodriguez (TIME, Oct. 10). The Archbishop had heard of wild scenes in the Chamber of Deputies the night before-a peon crying "Long live the Pope!" from the gallery and being thrown out; a unanimous vote authorizing President Rodriguez to deport the Apostolic Delegate instanter. The Archbishop's callers, courteously enough, now commanded his presence at the Ministry of the Interior...
...European Catholic would not recognize his Church in its Mexican form. With its customary realism it has here compromised with the native Indian faith. The Virgin is an Indian girl, with the natural dignity and beauty of her race. She appears to a poor peon and about this miracle the Church has woven all the mystery and hidden power characteristic of the Catholic tradition. In Catholicism the Indian finds the sonorous repetition of a potent formula which is what he asks of religion. His imagination is caught by the gilded altar-piece and he is emotionally confused and stirred...
...inhabitants, but her arable land is divided among less than 280,000 estates. Like Mexico and Russia, Spain was preparing last week to break up the vast estates of the grandees, give peasants a chance to own their farms. Mindful of the failure of thousands of Mexican peon farms, Spain moved cautiously, suggested a system whereby the land would not be held individually, or by semi-Soviet cooperatives, but by the municipalities...