Word: aute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polls closed promptly at 6 p.m. By 7:15, smiling, handsome Carlos Prio Socarras had heard enough of the returns to know that he would be Cuba's next President. He left the Havana headquarters of the Auténtico Party, hustled home to change his guayabera (sport shirt) and slacks for a white linen suit. Then he rode off to the presidential palace in a horn-tooting, placard-plastered motorcade...
President-elect Prio and the Auténticos also got a majority in Congress. But the minority might be lively. Among the new senators: moonfaced ex-Dictator Batista, who had directed his campaign from a deck chair in Daytona Beach, Fla., and was expected to return to Cuba in September...
With such campaigning last week, the gaunt, 6-ft. candidate of the conservative opposition was working mightily to close the lead of sleek, smiling Auténtico Candidate Carlos Prio Socarrás, President Grau's own choice to be his successor. Ricardo Núñez' first bid for public office was a strong one. The son of the general who ran up the flag of Cuban independence over Havana's Morro Castle in 1902, he was one of the island's most solid citizens. Pennsylvania-born, he trained at Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital...
Labor leaders who belong to President Grau's Auténtico (Cuban Revolutionary Party) stayed away from the Congress; so did independents. They called it illegal, because the Government commission appointed to check delegates' credentials had not finished its work. At week's end the anti-Communist forces tentatively scheduled a "legal Congress" for May 18, speculated on who would control the Confederation's treasury if there were rival officers. They wondered if this would force President Grau, who needs Communist support for his administration, to take a stand for or against his Red allies...
...easygoing President Ramón Grau San Martin, himself an Auténtico, at last moving to oust his political allies, the Communists, from the C.T.C., thus curb them as a political party? Some Auténtico leaders thought so. If that happened, the C.T.C. would probably shed its C.T.A.L. connections and hook up with the A.F.L-sponsored, right-wing Inter-American Federation of Labor. But smooth, well-tailored Don Vicente, back in his Mexican penthouse office, said "our relations with Grau are still cordial; he believes, as ever, in the ideals of the C.T.A.L...