Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Miguel Alemán was so besieged during a visit to the Orizaba city hall that he slipped out a side door and made for nearby Córdoba. Apparently to stall for time, State spokesmen falsely reported that the Legislature was willing to let the opened churches stay open. When Governor Alemán cracked out a denial of this, President Cárdenas ordered his Department of the Interior to investigate the entire affair. Upshot seemed to be that although it was still illegal to celebrate Mass in Veracruz, more Masses were being held there than...
...Jailer J. N. Corbitt. his father, asleep in their first-floor bedrooms below the rooms at Abbeville that serve as county jail, were awakened by a great racket outside. Before they could get up to investigate, a mob of 50 armed farmers burst in, ordered them to stay where they were. As sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they broke into it with a crowbar. From it they dragged strapping 18-year...
...Spain, a perfectly simple thing to do last week. The Spanish Red Government promptly appointed Son Miaja a Consul to be stationed at Alexandria in Egypt and the news Agence Espagne rang up the Defender of Madrid. "I am entrusted with the defense of Madrid and I must stay at the front!", General Miaja told Agence Espagne. "I blame Fascist propaganda for the reports that I will soon arrive in France...
...Archbishop O'Doherty. Finally Quezon abjured Freemasonry, had a chapel built in his house, became to all intents a good Catholic and took to playing golf with the Archbishop on Manila's Wack Wack links. For the duration of the Congress President Quezon invited Cardinal Dougherty to stay in Malacanan Palace, the old residence of Spanish and U. S. Governors General. But before the Cardinal arrived last week the wily brown politico slipped away, bound for Washington, he said, to confer on the date and agenda of a U. S.-Philippine trade and economic conference, which other Filipinos...
...topic, the inclement weather and ends with a sharing of vacation experiences or with some witty comment on the escape of three wolves from the Oxford Zoo. The last wolf was shot today, so sheep once more can graze with peace and the Oxford girls ride their bicycles and stay out after dark...