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Most harried of all has been CTM's Secretary General Vicente Lombardo Toledano, a clever, dreamy-eyed intellectual with big ears, who has followed three stars: Lázaro Cárdenas, Joseph Stalin and Lombardo Toledano, not necessarily in that order. The job of Mexico's official labor leader under Cárdenas was congenial enough to him, but not so congenial has been the position of apologist to the left for Avila Camacho's middle-of-the-road administration. By CTM's constitution he had to retire this year. For months it has been...
...only is Congress behind Avila Camacho, but the press in Mexico loudly sings his praises. Just before he took office, ex-&-exiled President Calles announced from California that he was behind him. Almazanistas have boarded the bandwagon. That wry little labor leader, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, whom Avila Camacho repudiated before his election, has echoed his disapproval of "crazy strikes" and begun trying to negotiate a settlement of a miners' strike in Nueva Rosita, Coahuila...
...King of Corn": Guy Lombardo...
Suave, thick-set Emilio Fortes Gil (pronounced heel), who was Provisional President after the assassination of Alvaro Obregon in 1928 and who helped Cárdenas into power only to be squeezed out by machinations of Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano and the Government's extreme left wing...
Fidel Velásquez, a comparatively conservative labor leader who is expected to succeed Lombardo as head of the principal labor organization...