Word: ezequiel
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...Friday Mr. Welles, President Vargas, Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla, Uruguay's Alberto Guani and others leading the fight for an open diplomatic rupture with the Axis gave way. If the U.S. Fleet had been bombarding Tokyo the result might have been different. It might also have been different if Chile's coming Presidential election were over, or if Argentina's Acting President had been less conservative...
...queen-oil. Mexico needed money, trade stabilization, a general economic overhauling. The U.S. needed a powerful demonstration of hemisphere solidarity. President Manuel Avila Camacho needed a big deal to back up his strong anti-Axis stand, his appeals for U.S. collaboration. His Minister of Foreign Affairs, suave Dr. Ezequiel Padilla, known as Narciso Negro (black narcissus) for his elegance, needed a triumph to swing Mexico's foreign policy back to close relations with Britain and the U.S. One thing stood in the way-oil. Between the $175,000,000 at which the oil companies are reported to have valued...
...whose real name is Ezequiel Rosas, first studied medicine with his father, a healer of the Caingua Indians. When Tupá Mbaé began working on an Argentine plantation other workers trickled, then streamed, to him for cures. As the years passed, more and more upper-class sick appeared. Among the poor people's gifts of fruit and wood, Tupá Mbaé began to find one, five and ten peso notes. One day he got the idea that he could live by medicine alone. Near Oberá, Argentina, he built up a practice of 10,000 patients...
Other skirmishes in the underground battle for the Hemisphere: ^ To the Government of Mexico, Germany sent a politely threatening note, suggesting that Mexico "reject" the new U.S. export ban on business houses giving financial support to the Nazis. Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla bluntly retorted that the note was "imperious and unacceptable...
...days later, in the Mexican Senate, elegant, 6 ft. 2 in. Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Ezequiel Padilla softly announced that the U. S. and Mexico were working out the details of a defense agreement. Since the U. S. and Mexico have been working out the details of a defense agreement for the past six months, Foreign Minister Padilla's announcement meant that the deal was just about concluded...