Word: tabasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimate of the quality of Mexican education was given in El Paso. Tex. last week by Rev. Michael Kenny, Jesuit, one-time regent of Loyola University's Law School. Returned from an investigation tour, he reported on Mexican sex education with special reference to the State of Tabasco, whose Governor is named Canabal. In Tabasco, according to Father Kenny, children are caused to learn about sex by viewing the matings of dogs, horses, cattle. In one case a bull was labeled "God," a cow "Virgin Mary." Said he: "Primary grade pupils in Tabasco were forced to strip naked, boys...
Since the German people heard only the Hitler side of events last week, their reaction was to decide that the Chancellor had at last proved himself a Strong Man, purged his Party of its worst element and emerged with enhanced prestige. In Paris the indiscreet entourage of tabasco-tongued Foreign Minister Louis Barthou dropped broad hints that further trouble and the fall of Chancellor Hitler are expected and that the foreign policy of France has been based on these expectations for months...
...Party was about to rubber-stamp Dictator-General Plutarco Elias Calles' choice of a new henchman to be shoved by the Party steamroller into the presidency of Mexico next July, but first the rubber stamp meeting was permitted to be roused to enthusiasm by Tabasco...
Despite the piety of his two dead wives, Dictator Calles is well known to rate in the Vatican's estimation as a ruthless enemy of Rome (TIME, July 26, 1926, et seq.). Cried Chief Tabasco Delegate Arnulfo Perez: "Where is the God who cannot see the lack of food and all the misery of the common people but can see the pomp and splendor of the Pope? . . . God did not create man. . . . God exists only in books, by which the priests exploit the poor! Man created God, and God only exists in petrified souls. . . . Mexico wants...
Amid pandemonium the whole Tabasco delegation and a large section of the Convention leaped to their feet shouting "DOWN WITH GOD!" When quiet was restored the Convention voted that Article II of the Mexican Constitution, which already forbids religious instruction shall be extended to compel "Socialist instruction" in schools. As one delegate put it: "Someone has said that God has strong arms to guide the destinies of Mexico but we know that our farmers and laborer have still stronger arms and will shape their own destiny...