Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No one knew better than Gonzalez how painful economic reforms could be. Four months ago students, protesting over an increase in bus fares, set off a bloody riot in Santiago. But his whirlwind stump tour had won Gonzalez enough political support to put over the plan. Now his problem would...
Out of This World. For his half-hour programs of folk song and plain song, interspersed with religious talks, Argentina's Radio Belgrano paid Fray José a record 60,000 pesos ($6,750) for eight broadcasts. But the money no longer went for the upkeep of lavish homes...
In 1941, shortly after his mother's death, José gave his fortune to charity and went off to Peru to enter the Franciscan order. Six years later, after he was ordained a priest in Lima's San Francisco Monastery, police were called out to control the admirers...
Back to the Old Trade. As a novice in his order, Fray José Francisco de Guadalupe had been startled to learn the extent of the chronic shortage of clergy in Roman Catholic South America; he found that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without...
"Never did I think when I began my religious life," he told his Argentina listeners, "that I would some day return to these microphones. But the life of the true soldier of Christ is based on obedience and discipline . . . Our youths, with their eyes on material things, disdain the priesthood...