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Fifty Manhattan Roman Catholics climbed about a United Fruit steamer in New York Harbor last week and kissed an amethyst ring. It was on the thick powerful finger* of a medium-sized cask of a man, whom two Mexican "very, very courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits...
Bishop Diaz is secretary of the Mexican Episcopate and has long denounced President Calles for trying to subordinate the Roman Catholic Church to the Mexican Government. President Calles?solicitous for his poor, degraded, mean electorate?wants to cut down on the vested interests of the comparatively rich Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and of the very rich foreign corporations. From every oil well he sees rising a dour genie, and in every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate...
...been said with truth that we differ from the Romans in that we like our thrills in tabloid form whereas they chose to get their sensations at closer hand in the gladiatorial fights. Not only, however, do we prefer the sublimated honors which a well practiced imagination can build up, but in the course of 2000 years or so we have become more delicate in our tastes. No longer does a good, old fashioned, out and out murder whet the public appetite; we must have infinite complications--simple enough to be comprehended, but spicy--everything from Pig Women to perjury...
Last summer (TIME, July 26) one Dexter E. Chipps went to Evangelist Norris' study in the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, to remonstrate against the evangelist's utterances upon Chipps' close friend, Mayor H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth. Politics, the Ku Klux Klan, Roman Catholicism¶all lay behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with...
...sought relief from its dilemma in an agonized editorial admitting that it was staggered by "a deep-rooted disorder in modern civilization." The public interest in the Brownings, it thought, was "no superficial blemish" but a phenomenon of vicarious sensual indulgence to which the nearest analogies were the Roman circus and the Spanish bullring. Yet "frank animalism" was lacking. "The combination between the courts and the tabloids," raged the World, "has produced a situation for which there really is no precedent. . . . There is no pretense possible that these spectacles are for the purpose of ventilating the processes of justice...