Word: ruiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cocks of Mexico City were crowing one morning last week, priests had begun their early orisons, when a guttural little group of government officials appeared at the door of 66-year-old Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores and demanded his person. The prelate, who somewhat resembles the present Pope, knew what to expect. As the Vatican's Apostolic Delegate (appointed 1929) he was the head & front of his church in Mexico. The Pope's encyclical Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul'') of last fortnight, complaining about the Mexican Government's treatment of the church, had stirred...
...with full energy to resolve definitely this problem, which has cost this nation so much blood and sacrifice. . . . "If the insolent, defiant attitude . . . continues, I am determined that the churches will be converted into schools and shops for the benefit of the nation's proletariat classes." Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Papal Legate to Mexico, said he hoped the President "and all the enemies of the Church will be pleasantly surprised" when they read Acerba animi in full, find it pacific and patriotic...
...bless the alterations of the Basilica had come Most Rev. Pascual Diaz, plump, jolly, Indian-blooded Archbishop of Mexico; Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Apostolic Delegate to Mexico; ten bishops and the entire clergy of Mexico City. Tourists warned by all-wise Guide Terry brought binoculars to gaze at the til ma above the high altar. After High Mass there began a solemn procession through the Basilica.* At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises. Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed...
...pair went in for two-piano music, particularly for flowered transcriptions of U. S. jazz. Composers Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel started going to hear them along with Composer Darius Milhaud, who named a pantomime Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Also went Writer Paul Morand, Painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Fisticuffer Georges Carpentier, the late King Ferdinand of Rumania, musical Prince Charles of Belgium. Six years ago as Le Boeuf began to take on a smug, profitable air, Wiener & Doucet left it, started giving serious concerts which (radically, then) featured jazz. Last week in Manhattan they began their first...
This year the final committee contained no great international figure. Last year Henri Matisse was on the jury and his good friend Pablo Ruiz Picasso won first prize (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). This year, beside the U.S. members, foreign artists on the jury were the Fascist Painter Cipriano Efisio Oppo, Britain's Paul Nash, France's Henry Eugene Le Sidaner. And for the first time since 1923 first prize went to a U. S. painter. Better, first prize went to one of the 30 unknown who had not been invited. Philadelphia, defeated in the World's Series...