Word: aguayo
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...took him for a beggar. But the man refused money and said he was a miner far gone with tuberculosis. Aléman questioned him, took him home, persuaded him to see a doctor. The verdict: not TB, but silicosis. In the name of the old man, Pedro Aguayo, Aléman filed suit against the mining company...
Mexican judges knew little of silicosis in 1929; company lawyers cried that Lawyer Aléman had invented it. But Aléman had studied a report on silicosis in South African mines. For Pedro Aguayo he won a 4,900-peso verdict. A week later he had 3,000 more such cases. A week after that he had a brand-new car. By month's end he and his partner-chubby Gabriel Ramos Milland, now a senator-had 16,000 cases. They got 25% of all judgments, figured half of that clear profit...
Under the direction of William C, Schroeder, associate curator of fishes in the Museum, the investigation will be aided by three representatives from the Havana School, Luis H. Rivero, Guillermo Aguayo, and Podro Bermudez, who will care for the fishes, molluscs, and foraminifera, respectively...