Word: padilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Band earned its epithet early in the program with "The Seafarer," Haydn Wood's arrangement of sea chanties. Tunes such as "Shenandoah" and "Away Rio" were played in a fine, sweeping style in the Band's first performance of the intricate work. A smooth rendition of Jose Padilla's "El Relicario" was the highlight of the second portion of the program...
...Mexico City, Miguel golfed almost weekly with the President. Another hopeful politico, Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, was usually in the foursome. The President liked both "boys," but he liked Miguel a little better and he gave him the nod for the 1946 presidential race...
...there was any doubt about Avila Camacho's election in 1940, there was none about Aléman's last year. He won on a fair count. Mostly he won because more Mexicans knew him better than they knew his professorial opponent, Padilla. During the campaign he had visited every state, called people in and asked to hear their troubles...
...lost his wife's money in business, Elliott sang wrathfully of unwise tax and trade laws. *All the speakers at the Institute spoke in English, although some of them (Uruguay's Larreta, Italy's De Gasperi and Turkey's Yalman) did so with difficulty. Padilla explained his linguistic temerity in a characteristic introduction: "Many years ago I arrived at Paris, and I met and had a very nice friendship with a girl from Hungary. She did not at that time speak a word of Spanish or French, and I did not speak a word of Hungarian...
...Padilla. At Cleveland, Mexico's former Foreign Minister, Ezequiel Padilla, noted as an orator in his native language, made his first try (successful) at extempore speaking in English.*He said...