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That case would leave out Mexico's astonishing reaction to news that barely made a stir in the U.S. During the long negotiations Mexicans were saying cynically: "Están haciendose la barba" (They are rubbing each other's cheeks...
Chief of old favorites for 20 years has been handsome, elegant General Mario Garcia ("The Beard") Menocal. now 70, longtime leader of the Conservatives (now the National Democrats). La Barba is beloved of back-country farmers because he was President in the glorious "time of the fat cows," during "the dance of the millions," (1919-21). when Cuban sugar sold for 22?. Of the millions he grafted then he has almost nothing left; his superb estate has fallen to ruins. Decrepit, distinguished, an old-fashioned leader, he was too weak this time to stump the country...
...Barba won seeming advantage last November when Cuba's Supreme Electoral Tribunal ruled that Gomez' independent Liberal backing could not support Gomez, if the regular Liberal Party put up any other candidate. Summoned in haste to advise Cuba, Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds told the Liberals to choose between Gomez and his opponent, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz. They chose Gomez. Menocal tore his beard indignantly. Dr. Dodds thereupon drew up the final electoral code (TIME, Dec. 16). New factor was that Cuba's pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile...
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...Thomas ("Seaman Tom") Watson. British featherweight champion, who was humiliated last fortnight when N. Y. Athletic Commissioners publicly doubted whether he was competent to oppose first-rate U. S. fighters: a 12-round bout-after being knocked down three times in the first two rounds-against sluggish Fidel La Barba, one-time world's flyweight champion, who was a 4-to-1 favorite; in Madison Square Garden. Seaman Tom's reward: a fight against Cuban Kid Chocolate (who was last week being refused entry into the U. S. by immigration authorities), for the featherweight championship of the world...