Word: lombardos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...dreams of Utopia into effect by redistributing land to the peasants, nationalizing the railroads, expropriating foreign oil concessions. But his espousal of the little man brought the full power of the militaristic Right against him. As he fought off the Right the militant Left crept in behind him. Vicente Lombardo Toledano, secretary of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers), began pumping Communism into the administration...
Bandmaster Guy Lombardo, who has long pined for the day when auto horns will sound the first few bars of the anthem of their owners' native States, joyfully announced that a manufacturer had agreed to produce them at $15 apiece...
...Benny's band at the Pennsylvania. Goodman's success is directly responsible for every good swing orchestra playing today, for if his music hadn't gone over back in 1936, we never would have had a swing craze, and you and I would have to be satisfied with Carmen Lombardo singing the St. Louis Blues, hot dog. Consequently I'd like to mention several of Benny's early recordings that you'd do well to buy before they become collector's items...
...removing Lombardo, President Cárdenas implemented General Avila Camacho's promise to rid Mexican politics of Communist domination. Avila Camacho had already matched General Almazán's other claims to conservatism by guaranteeing security to both Mexican and foreign investors, announcing himself a good Catholic. He was now in a position to match Almazán's program point for point, could offer the further inducement of accomplishing it without revolution...