Word: ezequiel
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...Ezequiel Padilla finally shook hands with President-elect Miguel Alemán. The fraud charges would be dropped. Even if there had been occasional sleight of hand in the ballot counting, the final result was too conclusive to doubt: Alemán 1,800,829, Padilla...
...early morning battles for control of polling booths. For the first time, soldiers stood guard on election day. As returns poured in, Candidate Miguel Aleman claimed certain victory. The support given him by the Government bureaucracy and the big labor unions made his claim sound valid. Opposition Candidate Ezequiel Padilla shouted "fraud...
...rival, Ezequiel Padilla, grandiloquent apostle of international cooperation, traveled on a shoestring. His backers, a few conservative businessmen and some ardent amateurs, could not match the turnouts of Alemán's labor unions and bureaucrats. But those who shouted "Viva!" were truly enthusiastic. Padilla's eloquent speeches attacked traditional Mexican "imposition" of the Government candidate, flayed the Communists, subtly played for Church support. Oldtimers compared Padilla to the U.S.'s William Jennings Bryan -a magnificent orator, an impractical politician. Padilla's outspoken wartime cooperation with the U.S. had not endeared him to the average, nationalist...
...spacious Mexico City home, listening to classical recordings with his pleasant wife and young daughter. Weekends, he is in summery Cuernavaca, golfing, visiting friends like Swedish Industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (U.S. black-listed), gazing wryly at the neighboring home of Oppositionist Candidate and ex-Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla...
...outgoing president called for a "crusade against corruption." The climax came when Vicente Lombardo Toledano, famed, currently anti-American, pro-leftist labor leader, gave the nominating speech for Miguel Aleman as the party's presidential candidate in the July 7 elections. Lombardo Toledano denounced the opposition candidate, idealistic Ezequiel Padilla, as a "pimp...