Word: lazaro
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...most notable achievements of his six years in office the successful rise of Pemex, the government oil monopoly. Recently, when his government raised a monument to Pemex in Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, the pedestal bore not only the famous 1938 expropriation decree of President Lazaro Cardenas, but quotations from a 1936 pro-expropriation speech by Aleman, then the youthful governor of Veracruz. Last week, in the final month of his presidential term, President Aleman flew to the Gulf Coast jungles to inspect Pemex' new Tenixtepec field, the country's biggest strike since Mexico took...
...Indonesians in turn were pushed back by a wave of Malays. When Ferdinand Magellan landed in 15 21 he found a people with its own written language, government by tribal law, a strict moral code, a thriving commerce. Magellan, before he was killed by tribesmen, named the place San Lazaro, but later Spain changed it to Philipinas, in honor of Prince Philip, who became Philip...
...married a wealthy widow from Argentina, founded a topflight cultural magazine, La España Moderna. Lazaro's collection included such old masters as Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco and Goya, plus masses of coins, medallions, jewels, miniatures, tapestries, antiques, ivories, armor, enamels and sculptures. It was always open to visitors-with two notable exceptions. The first was the brother who had smashed his terra cotta. The second was William Randolph Hearst -"That I will never allow," snorted Lazaro. "He started the Spanish-American...
Spain's civil war drove Lazaro to Paris. He stayed at the Ritz, filled his suite there with treasures. Victorious Franco liked Royalist Lazaro no better than had the Republicans, used his Madrid house as a police headquarters. Lazaro spent World War II in Manhattan. Art dealers got to know the trim little man with the beard of a Biblical patriarch. He was still voraciously snapping up old masters...
...Lazaro packed his new acquisitions aboard a liner, headed home. Franco had relented a little; Lazaro was allowed to take over his own house. There, three years ago, he died, after gratefully willing his house and collection to the state. The brother who smashed the terra cotta got nothing, lives in a poorhouse...