Word: zaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week at the San Antonio, Tex. airport. Behind him trailed five swarthy followers only slightly less formidable-looking. The first man was Mexico's onetime President and longtime Boss Plutarco Elías Calles, who had just been forcibly exiled from Mexico by President Lázaro Cárdenas. Sick, sleepless and broken, the 58-year-old exile turned on newshawks an impressively bitter face...
General Lázaro Cárdenas was to be another Calles puppet as President of Mexico. But at last the Party had found a man who sincerely believed in its program. Impassively, almost imperceptibly, prim-faced Cárdenas undercut Calles by giving the people some of the things Calles had promised them. When, last year, Calles suddenly tried to crack down on his man, he found that Cárdenas had sewed up the loyalty not only of the peasants and workers but of the Army as well...
...away by plane, got in the habit of weekending there. Cineman Joseph Schenck bought into the Hotel, was delighted this year when Warners used his place for exterior shots in In Caliente (TIME, June 3). Into this playtime idyl last week crashed Mexico's ascetic President Lázaro Cárdenas...
This to the Government of Mexico was as good as a small loan. Last week, sipping grapejuice and fizz-water, Mexican friends of Dry Ambassador Daniels toasted a new era beginning Dec. 1, 1934, with the inauguration of His Excellency General Lázaro Cárdenas as the 45th President of the United States of Mexico. By an appropriate coincidence, grim General Cárdenas stands with genial Ambassador Daniels for grape juice and Prohibition...
...Died. Zaro Agha. circa 160. a Turk believed to be the oldest man in the world; of uremia; in Istanbul. Doctors who examined Zaro Agha thought his abnormal pituitary gland responsible for his longevity, never wholly subscribed to his statement that he was born two years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence...