Word: lazaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booming industry. From its 1921 peak of 193 million bbl., production had sagged badly as salt water seeped into the major fields and fear of expropriation caused the curtailment of new exploration. In 1938 only 38.5 million bbl. came out of the ground. The jubilation that greeted President Lazaro Cardenas' expropriation decree was hardly borne out by the prospects. Technicians fled. Outraged foreign companies organized a boycott against exported Mexican oil, persuaded equipment suppliers to refuse sales to Pemex. Soon Mexico was buying oil abroad...
...will not be a Protestant. He may be privately pro-U.S. (as is Ruiz Cortines, who has periodic friendly telephone chats with President Eisenhower), but publicly he must be reserved. His political views must not be too far right or he will lose the support of ex-President Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), who expropriated foreign oil holdings and launched ambitious land reforms. They must not be too far left or he will not have the support of ex-President Miguel Aleman (1946-52), who guided Mexican politics back to the middle of the road. Membership in the current Cabinet...
...Goya's paintings in the current exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is to be regretted but not condemned. There is really more than enough for two or three visits in this huge collection of drawings, 129 of which are from the Prado and Lazaro Galdiano Museums in Madrid, and the rest from the rich local resources...
...Jose Laurel. 4. Lazaro Cardenas...
...Mexico City are to be seen and heard from noon till midnight's last serenade. They work in pairs, taking turns toting the barrel, winding the crank and passing the hat. Their instruments, invariably German-made, are rented (for 5 pesos a day) from old Maestro Gilberto Lazaro, whose enormous, crumbling house in Tepito, the thieves' market, is the hub of the hurdy-gurdy business. Lazaro places the notes on the wood-and-wire cylinders of his organs, first mastering the tunes by listening to records, then beating them out on a piano...