Word: vel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fidel Velásquez, a comparatively conservative labor leader who is expected to succeed Lombardo as head of the principal labor organization...
...rdenas' chosen successor, scored a thumping victory at the expense of Almazanismo. By Government pressure, large-eared, hot-eyed, Communistic little Vicente Lombardo Toledano was squeezed out of the secretaryship of the Government-supporting CTM (Confederation of Mexican Labor), probably to be replaced by non-Communistic Fidel Velásquez. Organizer of the CTM in 1936, nimble-minded Lombardo returned from Russia beating the Stalinist drum, vigorously antiFascist. When Moscow shifted so did he, screaming denunciation of the U. S., President Roosevelt, Great Britain and the Monroe Doctrine without losing a beat. Four months ago, under pressure from President...