Word: lazaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with Mexican ex-President Lazaro Cardenas...
High Hopes. For six years (1934-40) before Avila Camacho brought moderation into Mexican politics, Lazaro Cardenas spread revolutionary fire & brimstone over the land. Cardenas distributed over 45,000,000 acres of land to the peasants. With the backing of labor and the Indian peasantry, which still worship him, he built up the first socialist state in the Western world. Stubborn as a burro, Cárdenas fought for Mexico's sovereign right to control its own subsoil treasures of ore and oil. He nearly broke Mexico doing it. When he bequeathed his errors and accomplishments to Avila Camacho...
Winner among male singers was Miguelito Valdes (real name Eugenio Lazaro Miguel Izquierdo Valdes y Hernandez), whose vigorous song-shouting has been featured with both Cugat and Machito. With the latter's band, big, bull-like Valdes recently recorded an album of his guarachas (risque ballads) and pregons (street-vendor songs) for Decca. He sings in a variety of moods from the comic to the truculent, but always with a full head of steam. He grew up on the Havana docks, became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough...
...washed down with rare wines. Mexico's querulous intellectuals were being reconciled; the bile of the inkpot was being washed away in the blood of the vine. At the same time they were making the acquaintance, firsthand, of the President who, succeeding to the far-Left regime of Lazaro Cardenas, had led Mexico back to the middle of the road in a new era of "evolution...
This week Publisher Allen was preparing a gala blowout in Laredo for Mexican Defense Minister ex-President Lazaro Car-lenas, on tour of Mexico war plants. Also invited were Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commanding the U.S. Third Army, the Air Forces' Major General Hubert Harmon, other military bigwigs...