Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexican Episcopate issued last week a pastoral letter signed by Archbishop Jose Maria Del Rio in which the encouragement of Pope Pius XI was extended to the Catholics of Mexico, embattled against the enforcement of the anti-religious Mexican Constitution by President Calles (TIME...
...fiddle scrapes, his songs are heard. . . ." Of Maestro Fortune Gallo shouting, "I tell you my name is Fortune. . . . I tell you opera will pay. . . ." Of Signer Serafin imposing his electricity on the wavering scores of Metropolitan experiments. ... Of Toscanini throwing down his cello in the Opera House in Rio de Janeiro one night in 1886 to conduct Aida by heart and win fame thereby. . . . But most of all, since his name occurred most often, one thought of Pietro Mascagni, and the curious stories that are told about this baker's son, whose life has been a wail redeemed...
...Between the Archbishop of Mexico and President Calles there passed last week an exchange of notes more amiable in tone than any previous pronouncement by the Episcopate or Administration since enforcement of the anti-religious Constitution of Mexico was begun (TIME, July 12). Archbishop José Mora y Del Rio dispassionately requested President Calles to suspend the enforcement statutes of the Constitution until the Mexican Parliament should have opportunity to strike out the Constitution's anti-religious clauses by amendment...
...Mora y Del Rio...
...Monsignor Mora y del Rio, who wore the robes and insignia of his office received me in a plainly furnished study containing a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe. . . . He spoke Italian and was evidently touched by the visit of a journalist who had come expressly from the motherland of the Church to visit her persecuted outposts in Mexico. Indeed, so deep was his feeling that after the first few words he choked with emotion, and with tears flowing freely down his" cheeks he merely clasped my hands and murmured:'O Roma!Roma...