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...high-school junior last week won the $1,000 first prize in a nationwide art contest sponsored by American Magazine, He was judged the best of 52,587 contestants. Diminutive Ben Quintana, 17, was well qualified to paint the subject set-My Community: Its Place in the Nation. Winner Quintana's ancestors have lived in the U. S. as long as anybody: he is a full-blooded Pueblo Indian...
When low tide kept his pilot boat from landing at Tulum, Quintana Roo, impulsive Mexican President Lázaro Cÿrdenas, anxious to get on with his job, pulled on his bathing suit and plunged overboard, swam ashore, followed by 60 cursing members of the Presidential party...
...unless vetoed by President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, will provide: 1) That no religious denomination shall have more than one clergyman per 50,000 population in either the Federal District of Mexico City (pop. 1,217,663) or the Territories of Lower California (pop. 94,469) and Quintana Roo (pop. 12,150). 2) That in the District and Territories no clergyman shall officiate in more than one church, shall be fined 500 pesos ($200) if he does. In the Federal District of Mexico City, where some 400 priests were officiating in more than 200 Catholic churches last week...
Reporters trying to keep track of the week's explosions in Havana announced varying totals, reported six bombs exploded on one day, five the day after. Strangely, all this blasting killed nobody. But Angel Quintana, 14-year-old messenger boy, was seriously wounded when the "freshly made" bomb that he was delivering to a customer slipped from his grasp...
Purpose of this child-murder: "To cure with his blood the ailments" of Josefa Quintana (brother of the mayor) who was not cured but died the same night...