Word: zaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When low tide kept his pilot boat from landing at Tulum, Quintana Roo, impulsive Mexican President Lázaro Cÿrdenas, anxious to get on with his job, pulled on his bathing suit and plunged overboard, swam ashore, followed by 60 cursing members of the Presidential party...
...Mexican election as a dray horse in a sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime fighter who subdued the Catholic rebellion of 1928 and the Cedillo revolt last year, onetime Minister of National Defense General Manuel Avila Camacho. Since January 1938 he has been training for the presidency on a regime of "silence on important issues...
This brought Lázaro Cárdenas hustling home, where he canceled appointments right & left to talk to Donald Richberg. Though the betting had been odds-on that the dickerings would remain stalemated, Mexico City was electrified two days later by an official announcement that a solution was expected within a week...
...Presidential campaign which will produce a successor to President General Lázaro Cardenas-who is barred by the Constitution from succeeding himself when his first term comes to an end in November 1940-last week got off to an early but gentlemanly start. President Cardenas' Cabinet, three members of which recently resigned in order to become eligible for the Presidential race, pledged to "abstain radically" from political activities during the campaign in order "to keep the people from having barriers in the free expression of their will...
...night last week, outside Mexico City headquarters of the Fascist Front for Unifying the Revolution, 3,000 Mexicans crowded to hear tirades by anti-Cárdenas speakers, one of whom was Juan Moran, a member of the dissolved Mexican Gold Shirts. They upbraided liberal President Lázaro Cárdenas, stormed against the Government's admission of 1,400 Italian and German veterans of the Spanish People's Army. But the bitterest of their abuse was directed against Mexico City's 15,000 Jews. "Jewish blood and more Jewish blood must flow!", screamed handbills which...