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...Armitage and friends were Roman Catholics. Mayor Duvall's defenders have accused Mr. Armitage's brother, James Duvall, a state witness, of perjury inspired by rancor against Klannish Mayor Duvall. Mayor Duvall's prosecutors ascribe the ill success of his corrupt practices to the fact that he was "trying to play both ends against the middle...
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCH-BISHOP?Willa Gather?Knopf ($2.50). A large part of Miss Gather's pre-eminence as a novelist is due to her ability as a scholar. Her offering for this season is more scholarly than creative?a reconstruction of the episcopal works of the first Roman Catholic bishop of her beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before...
...office had not lacked grave difficulties. Touching on the resignations of several ministers, he went on to mention the enforcement of the religious laws, saying that the result has been to how that the "Mexican people are indifferent to the suppression of the cults" and roundly charging the Roman Catholic clergy with rebellious conduct. He noted, too, that several foreigners, among them two "North Americans" (meaning U. S. citizens), had been expelled in "an effort to clean up the morals of the nation." Referring to education, he stated that "92% of the population to be educated is receiving instruction...
...other hand, it was felt that the President's allusions to the enforcement of the anti-religious laws would rally the Roman Catholics to the banner of "Kaiserlike" General Arnulfo R. Gomez, who sponsors religious toleration as the main plank in his party platform and who opposes one-armed General Obregon, among other reasons, because he has already been President...
Outside on the flying field a woman was kneeling. Over her the Most Rev. Francis Mostyn, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, was praying, asking a blessing. On the ship he sprinkled holy water. Soon rose the motor roar which drowns goodbys on flying fields. The St. Raphael moved, gained speed, just averted disaster at the takeoff, and disappeared toward the Atlantic...