Word: roos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Weyer, who represents still another problem for the young moralist to solve. Educated in Europe, Mario is sophisticated, reckless, experienced in love, enjoys flattery, presents, bright clothing, admires Oliver's integrity without wishing to imitate him. When Mario leaves Harvard hastily, after an actress is discovered in his roo'm, Oliver befriends him, straightens out his finances, feels no moral revulsion. Yet as Oliver grows to manhood he learns that in each of his quiet, passionless love affairs, the image of Mario stands between him and the object of his desire. In the case of his first love...
...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...