Word: lazaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until 1949 was his leprosy diagnosed. Then the police, rigidly following Italy's medievally strict leprosy laws, threw him into Rome's Lazzaretto Lazaro Spallanzani.* Though he was repeatedly certified "noncontagious and innocuous," it took Orano months to get away to France with his wife Giulia, a former nurse. But after six years of campaigning against the "vilest humiliations" and "unreasoning, medieval terror of leprosy," Orano was finally locked up by the French. So back he went to Rome...
...Lazzaretto, from Lazarus, an isolation hospital; named for Microbe Hunter Lazaro Spallanzani...
...expropriating Cananea, President Ruiz Cortines was only doing what every Mexican has expected of every Mexican president since 1911, when illiterate Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata cried "Land and Liberty!" In the first 18 years of the program six Presidents handed over 17½ million acres to landless peasants. Land Reformer Lazaro Cárdenas (1934-40) parceled out 45 million acres; Avila Camacho (1940-46). 13 million acres; Miguel Alemán (1946-52). 10 million. In all, 93 million acres, nearly 20% of Mexico's total area, were handed over to 2,000,000 landless peons, who organized themselves...
Mexicali's cotton prosperity is the offspring of a convenient marriage of U.S. capitalism and Mexican socialism. Between 1936 and 1938 President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated foreign-held cotton land in the valley, doled it out to Mexican peasants. Too poor to buy seed, fertilizer and equipment, the farmers turned to the Mexican subsidiary of the giant U.S. firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., which branched out from ginning into financing the growers. Since 1939, production has climbed ten times...
Jury of Three. The choice of Lopez Mateos came as something of a surprise. Three other Cabinet Ministers-rightists in the P.R.I.-were considered the leading contenders. But in choosing his successor, Middle-of-the-Roader Ruiz Cortines listened long to ex-Presidents Lazaro Cardenas and Miguel Aleman, who control the left and right wings of the P.R.I. Leftist Cardenas, with his millions of farm and labor backers, was clearly the more persuasive-and he vetoed the frontrunners. Lopez Mateos, not committed to left or right, was acceptable to all three President-makers...