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Word: caballitos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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Young Attorney Aléman found success quickly in the person of a little old man with a racking cough. Aléman first saw him under the Caballito monument at the head of the Paseo de la Reforma, and 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Good Friend | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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