Word: aute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reports that Auténtico (Cuban Revolutionary Party) leaders were trying to move in on the C.T.C. at its annual convention had sped Lombardo from his Mexico City home to Havana. He had hardly settled into his $24-a-day room in the swank Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore when he discovered how right those reports were. Waiters belonging to the Auténtico faction refused to serve him (but servants who followed their union's Communist leaders loyally made his bed). As the 2,000 pistol-packing, trigger-happy delegates (both Auténticos and Communists) jockeyed to get their...
...Auténticos charged that Lombardo Toledano was a "foreigner sticking his nose in internal affairs." In Congress, Auténtico deputies asked for the Mexican's ouster from the country. After Cuba's Minister of the Interior canceled the convention in the interests of public safety, Lombardo Toledano quietly flew away...
...election day last week was orderly, the polling apparently honest. The result was a smashing victory for President Ramón Grau San Martín's left-wing regime, his Auténtico Party and Communist supporters. Grau's man, Manuel Fernandez Supervielle, won Havana's mayorship, the island's No. 2 political job. Most of the island's 125 new mayors would also be Grau men. Apparently enough Grau legislative candidates won to give the President, for the first time, a majority in Congress...
...Aut Vincere Aut Mori"--To Conquer or To Die--is the ringing motto emblazoned on the Cambridge Fire Department's silken standard, designed and sown by one of its own members. "Organization and efficiency" might be a suitable, if less heroic, description of the innards of the light brick building in the spacious square under the shadow of Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick...