Word: peso
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Since the War, U. S. financial physicians have gone to the far corners of the earth to stabilize the peso, sucre, zloty, pengo, gourde, piaster, cordoba. Some of them have stepped out of their college classrooms to put their fiscal theories into practice. Some have served only as expert diagnosticians, leaving behind a financial prescription for the country to cure itself. Others have remained at the bedside through long painful years, playing nurse as well as doctor...
...sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands of smart, irrepressible Argentines appeared on the streets, in subways, cafes and at bull fights, wearing pajama pants with coats...
...young man to Mexico City lost none of its pristine glamour, last week; but from his lone, receding plane the deft hand of U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow conjured an achievement in statecraft. Under his suave persuasion the President of Mexico embarked on a new policy of "peso diplomacy"-a policy which could scarcely have been launched had not Ambassador Morrow given Mexicans the emotional treat of "going Lindbergh...
...difficult it is to arrive at the truth of this hotly contested point may be seen upon scrutinizing the "unanswerable" statement of the encyclical that at her richest the Roman Catholic Church of Mexico never collected "a donation of even as much as one peso from each member of the flock per year." A Mexican would point out that "the flock" includes in Roman Catholic computation hundreds of thousands of peasants who have only the vaguest religious concepts, and habitually confuse the Trinity with the native gods of old Mexico. Should "the flock" be pruned of all these semi-pagans...
...Mora y del Rio. . . . The archepiscopal palace is near the flower market, in the older part of the city. That market occupies a plaza which illustrates one of the most attractive features of Mexico, where perpetual spring prevails and beautiful flowers are in bloom throughout the year. For a peso one can make his house a perfect bower of the rarest and most magnificent blossoms, although they are without perfume. Another interesting feature of the plaza is a great number of public letter-writers, called by the odd name of 'evangelists,' sitting under the arcade along one side...