Word: actionists
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...buzzards wheeled lazily by day and the business life of Cuba went peacefully on in the sunbright streets and sleepy countryside, at night in the city of Havana the secret conferences of dark-eyed men talking softly and rapidly became longer and subtler and more intense. The Republican Actionist Party of impeached President Gómez, who spent the winter attending exhibition baseball games with ostentatious humility, suddenly spurted with a violent manifesto characterizing Acting-President Laredo Bru as "a decorative figure and a phantom, imprisoned in the palace as a legal fiction," and demanding that the Army stay clear...