Word: zaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico City, the Government press bureau announced that Mexicans may now telegraph complaints direct to President Lázaro Cárdenas, free of charge...
Showing how little he cared for any U. S. property rights, President Lázaro Cardenas last week grabbed 7,230 acres, more than eleven square miles, of pasturage in the State of Coahuila, owned by a San Antonian, Mrs. Lettie W. Weller. He split it into 59 farms for 59 Negro families. The ancestors of these Negroes reputedly went to Mexico in the 1860s as slaves of a band of Kickapoo Indians who trekked across the border from...
...zaro Cárdenas, proletarian President of Mexico, last week published a decree confiscating 1,723 hectares (7 sq. mi.) of a ranch near El Aguaji belonging to farmer loving U. S. Representative William Lemke of North Dakota, candidate of the 1936 Union Party (Father Coughlin) for President...
...started robbing only as a defiant gesture against a ruthless politician who tried to wring campaign contributions out of him. Having thus implied that Mexico's "New Deal" suited his political tastes, Bandit Rodríguez promised to reform, was promptly set free by President Lázaro Cárdenas' authorization...
Last week it became public knowledge everywhere but in Mexico that the Mexican Government Petroleum Administration was swapping oil for newsprint with Nazi Germany. A very good reason for loudly proletarian President General Lázaro Cárdenas' Government failing to broadcast this news for home consumption was that simultaneously in Mexico City was convening the first Latin-American Labor Conference, which opened with many a sharp cry against "Nazi and Fascist penetration of Latin America." Host to the conference was ascetic, sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only...