Word: lazaro
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...guard at the palace, where President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines was secluded, flourished weapons against the saddest paraders Manila had ever seen. Chanting "Give us Liberty or Give us Death," flaunting the same cry on placards, 235 lepers who are normally cooped up in Manila's San Lazaro Hospital marched through the city's streets, with no one daring to hinder them...
Knowing that leprosy is not very contagious, Manila's chief health officials quickly appeared at San Lazaro to placate its inmates. The Philippine Government, they intimated, lacks money to pay institutional lepers immediately. On the other hand, the Government is building regional leprosaria where lepers may live near their kin. As soon as doctors pronounce a leper cured he will be freed. But only one out of 20 lepers may expect to be cured. Therefore, the other 19 had better make the best of confinement. The Government gives them vegetable gardens to tend, occupations to perform, diversions. Children...
Exalted by the world-wide attention which they achieved, relaxed by the bold doings of the day, San Lazaro's lepers resumed their repetitious chores and diversions...
...like Mexico's onetime Provisional President Victoriano Huerta, the late "Pancho" Villa and San Luis Potosi State's present Boss Saturnino Cedillo, eventually become genuine leaders, generals and political powers. Cedillo's standing army of 7,000 is let strictly alone by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas' regular army of 60,000. In time of civil war the bandits are cajoled by both sides. But last week somebody went too far when 13 passengers of a bus in Jalisco were killed by raiders...
...group of politicians including Colonel Eduardo Hernandez Chazaro, candidate for Governor of Veracruz. He had no doubt that his own enemies had done the bombing. Convinced that the "intellectual author" of the deed was onetime Dictator Plutarco Elias Calles, ousted from his country last week (see p. 25), President Lazaro Cardenas ordered an investigation to ferret out the actual perpetrators...