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...Great," died in his sullen city on the swamp. His beard then took its revenge and sprouted violently under the coffin lid; in time it, too, grew tired. Meanwhile the rug that had carried the forgiveness of Persia hung upon the wall of Leopold I, Sovereign under the Holy Roman Empire, and King of Hungary. Two weeks ago a Scotch art dealer landed in Manhattan. He had a trunk with him. The rug was in the trunk...
...handling the funds. ... A well-spoken speech may net only ten, where a word in the right ear will net a hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk dangerously by raising and keeping raised a perfect dust storm of issues that really do not matter...
...Lamont Report," as it was promptly christened, sped over humming rails from Mexico City to Manhattan last week. Conclusion: 1) That Mexican commerce has returned to normal in every Mexican state but one. 2) That in the city of Guadalajara, famed Roman Catholic stronghold, commerce has regained a level of about 60% of normal...
Well poised, the Lamont agents did not scorn to include picturesque details in their fiscal tabulation. They reported that: 1) Roman Catholic families, enjoined not to attend the cinema, have very widely eschewed the cinema houses which they individually patronized, but have sought others in parts of their cities where they are not known. 2) At Guadalajara many self-styled devout Roman Catholics, imperfectly converted from paganism, are to be seen on their knees in streets praying to Xochimilco, the pagan god of Mexico City's canal district, imploring him to loose floods upon President Calles as a punishment...
...only avenue of compromise which appeared open last week was a reported offer by the Calles Government to recognize and tolerate a Mexican Pope who should have no connection with the See of Rome. Though many of the Roman Catholic prelates of Mexico are pure-blooded Mexicans (some are even Mexican Indians), the Episcopate has hitherto repudiated all proposals of this sort. None the less Mexican news organs reported last week that Bishop Diaz of Tabasco "Generalissimo of the Episcopate" had been recalled hastily from a tour of the provinces by the Archbishop of Mexico to confer...