Word: ainciart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble would give Dictator Machado an excuse to order out the Army and fight to keep his power. Day after day, as strikes spread far beyond the Government's possible wish, Havana police grew more & more frantic. When strikers forced shopkeepers to close their doors, Police Chief Antonio Ainciart set out with a machine gun squad. Swearing blue blazes he brandished a big pistol under shopkeepers' noses, compelled them to open up-until a few minutes after he had left when they tremblingly lowered the steel shutters in front of their windows again. Police on the loose peppered...
Havana's Chief of Police is Antonio B. Ainciart. Last week he issued a general order. No mention was made of the police habit of shooting anti-Machadoans on sight under the informal ley de juga, but, ordered Chief Ainciart, "The members of the force must abstain from harsh or insulting language in all cases...
...Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio Ainciart, head of the national police, who put in a busy morning chasing reporters and smashing cameras. In the suburbs police stopped a green automobile containing three passengers and a sawed-off shotgun. They were arrested. Havanans expect the prisoners to develop suicidal tendencies in jail...
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