Word: ezequiel
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Soft-voiced, sentimental Manuel Avila Camacho, the man of harmony, sat between doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull-necked Portes Gil. There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects...
South American journalism is more hazardous than the North American brand. La Prensa's publisher and principal owner, Ezequiel Pedro Paz, Don José's son, has twice been challenged to a duel. Because he is a crack pistol shot, neither duel was fought. Now over 70, Don Ezequiel shows up at the paper punctually at 5 p.m. for the daily editorial conference with Editor-in-Chief Dr. Rodolfo N. Luque. Present also is his nephew and heir-apparent, handsome Alberto Gainza ("Tito") Paz, 43, father of eight and ex-Argentine open golf champion. Significantly, La Prensa...
Mexico verged on war, and the Axis had only itself to blame. Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla had already sent the Axis a violent ultimatum on the torpedoing of the Potrero del Llano (TIME, May 25). Then last week off Cuba the Axis bungled into torpedoing the 6,607-ton tanker Faja de Oro, which Mexico had grabbed from Italy last year, and whose commander openly boasted last month that he had rammed and sunk an Axis...
...tanker Potrero del Llano, the former Italian Lucifero, which Mexico had grabbed a year ago, was nosing along off the Florida coast, her colors illuminated, when she was torpedoed with a loss of 14 of her 35-man crew. The very next day Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla sent a note, demanding "complete satisfaction, and a guarantee of damage reparations," not only to Germany and Italy, but even to Japan...
...Potomac, past Arlington Cemetery, and out to Mount Vernon. He asked a few questions, such as when the Japanese cherry blossoms would bloom, but was usually quiet, his expressive hands working as when he makes a speech. That night, at a dinner given him by Senator Tom Connally, Ezequiel Padilla said: "I toast the greatness of this American nation. . . . In human history never has any nation on the earth had a greater job than the United States has now. Nevertheless, in all the phases of this job shines an indomitable fate, and in all the souls unbreakable confidence, because liberty...