Word: arsenio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time. Also, to the scandal of strait-laced Filipinos, the Congress coincided with the annual Philippine Carnival, a 16-day combination of Mardi Gras, county fair and Coney Island which paralyzes Manila business for weeks. But the director general of the Carnival, Arsenio Luz, was chairman of the Congress Ways & Means Committee, and he canceled all balls, toned down sideshows...
Meanwhile the soothing influence which many Cubans attribute to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles continued. Notorious Major Arsenio Ortiz, President Machado's favorite strong-arm man, recalled from his bloody job of stringing up provincial rebels fortnight ago (TIME, June 5), was still under technical arrest, charged with three murders. The Machado government dared not bring him to trial, not knowing how much truth lay in his oft-repeated boast that friends in the U. S. hold the original orders for every one of his political assassinations. Finally came the decision: Major Ortiz would be sent to Germany June...
Sent to stamp out Cuba's rebellion in Santa Clara Province, Dictator Machado's strong-arm man Major Arsenio Ortiz last week stamped furiously. Than catching and trying nimble rebels, he found it easier ?o shoot and hang any suspected person he could lay hands on. Such last fortnight were three guards of a U. S.-owned sugar mill at Jatibonico. Ortiz had them slaughtered on suspicion. The company's vice president posted off to Havana to protest to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles. Soon Ortiz followed, talked with officials and flew back to the Santa Clara...
...supreme leader." Inevitable spawn of Machado's Terror, they knew that if they tried to live quietly in their homes, they might soon be jailed or dead. To stamp them out President Machado last week sent to Santa Clara his favorite strong-arm man, notorious Major Arsenio Ortiz...
...Dear Sirs . . . My words 'uniformed asses,' 'Attila's horse,' 'official bandit' and others similar to that ... do not refer to Major Arsenio Ortiz but are intended for whomever shall be found guilty of the horrible deaths inflicted on citizens of Santiago de Cuba...