Word: lazaro
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...Mexico's President from 1924 to 1928 and El Jefe (the boss) for many years before & after; after a gall-bladder operation; in Mexico City. The onetime schoolteacher and storekeeper gained prominence in the 1911 revolution against Porfirio Diaz, thereafter dominated Mexican politics until banished in 1936 by Lazaro Cárdenas, his former protege. Calles improved education and labor laws, inveighed loudly against one-man rule yet practiced it, continually flailed the Catholic Church, was labeled "hard but just" by U.S. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow...
Greetings. Near Esquipulas, Guatemala, a fish encountered openmouthed Swimmer Lazaro Perez, swam in, choked him to death...
...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...