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...supporters, struck at Mother Church. Not a single Mexico City daily newspaper printed Archbishop Diaz's denunciation of what both houses of Mexico's Congress had unanimously voted. Protestant denominations did not complain. The largest has only 13 churches in all Mexico. In the State of Vera Cruz the legal limit already enforced on priests and churches is one per 100,000 population- twice as strict as that voted by the Federal Congress. Last week the Legislature of the State of Morelos passed a bill to tax each cleric 300 pesos ($120) per annum. In the State...
...news, pesos dropped to 2.90, closed at 2.78 to the dollar (par is 2.01 pesos to the dollar). Later came relief. Mexican bankers, hard pressed for bullion, bought gold in the New York market for the first time in years. A shipment of $2,114,700 arrived at Vera Cruz for Mexico City...
Producers Schwab & Mandel have assembled a notable troupe of beauteous girls for Free For All. Among them: Lilian Bond, whom Oscar's uncle Arthur Hammerstein put in Luana last year before he went bankrupt (TIME, April 6); Vera Marsh of America's Sweetheart; pert Dancer Dorris Groday; Jeanette Loff. late of Hollywood (The King Of Jazz); Dorothy Knapp. a "Most Beautiful Woman In The World" for Earl Carroll and Flor- enz Ziegfeld; lovely Tamara (The Wunder...
Mexican businessmen were more concerned than Wall Street, where the news was not a complete surprise. Many banks in Vera Cruz refused to do business; exchanges were at a standstill; U. S. dollars were scarce. Normally quoted at two gold pesos, dollars skyrocketed to 2.75, 2.90, 3 and 3.30 silver pesos...
Engaged. Frank Carideo, quarterback of last year's championship Notre Dame football team; and one Vera Imogene Crawley of Columbia, Miss...