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...centuries of Catholic penetration into Mexico the Roman Catholic Church, abetted by and abetting Spain, extinguished virtually all other religious cults before Mexico won independence of Spain in 1824. It remained for a full-blooded Mexican Indian, Benito Pablo Juarez -after whom Benito Mussolini was christened-to raise the "Reform War" of 1855-61, the pan-Mexican spirit of which was infused into the antiPapal constitution of 1857 and finally forged into the present constitution of 1917 which specifically declares: "Only a Mexican by birth may be a minister of any religious creed in Mexico." Juarez, while president, not only...
Year in, year out, for many a year, pleased citizens have contemplated lawyers' proposals for judicial reform. Other citizens have been vexed that the field for reform never lessened. Last week a familiar twa,ng was sounded in the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Mayor Dever of Chicago decried prohibition. Onetime Bar-President Chester I. Long decried present methods of judicial procedure. Oscar Hallam of St. Paul decried paroles. Expert witnesses, insanity defense, Senator Thomas J. Walsh (who is holding up in the Senate a bill for simplification of procedure)-all were decried seriatim; Finally, the Association...
Coincident with these manifestations came reports of hard sledding encountered by Premier Bartel in securing the confidence of Parliament in the Pilsudski program of constitutional reform (TIME...
...White House breakfast next morning, the President with the aid of good friend Senator Butler, decided that something-ought-to-be-done. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and Secretary of Commerce Hoover were summoned. They thought so, too. A Coolidge statement was sent out urging agrarian reform on a "sound basis." Congress was urged to adopt the Fess Bill which would set up a co-operative marketing bureau, financed by a $100,000,000 fund...
...BEAM'S?A spinster attempts to reform a villain who she believes will eat her alive...