Word: lombardo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a career of rioting and street fighting that culminated in the shooting up of a Mexico City police station, Siqueiros had landed in jail, charged with complicity in an attempted assassination of Leon Trotsky. Mexican artists and leftists, led by potent little Vicente Lombardo...
...makes Moonlight shine is young, handsome Jerry Lawrence, former actor and amateur wrestler at San Diego State College. He rounds up live talent for the program, and in recent months has introduced Peter Arno, Sheila Barrett, Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo on his "Celebrities Corner" feature...
Meanwhile in Mexico City, student demonstrators were smashing windows in the German Club, and leftist radicals "stormed" the Deutsches Haus. The Stalinists hastened to make political hay: Vicente Lombardo Toledano, President of the shadowy "Confederation of Workers of Latin America," wrote President Manuel Avila Camacho demanding that Mexico instantly declare formal war on the Axis and seize all Axis citizens' property; the leaders of the Stalinist-controlled C.T.M., biggest Mexican labor federation, demanded...
...next few months he will see obreros, mineros, Gauchos, banana pickers, oil drillers, dock-wallopers who live along the great river mouths and port towns, on the haciendas, in the mountains. All will listen to Lombardo...
...next few months will see the result of his mission, the answer of massed millions in the 20 American republics to Lombardo's appeal...