Word: cabana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a parcel of sporting characters, including No. i Manhattan Promoter Mike Jacobs (no kin to Joe), gathered in a cabana on Miami Beach and signed paunchy, dewlapped, 235-lb. Tony for a go with Champion Joe Louis on June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...
Holding most of Cuba's guns, little Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista last week went President-making. So unimpressed was this quarter white, quarter black, quarter Chinese, quarter Indian by the politicos' choice early last week of Carlos Hevia y Reyes Gavilan that he cut off Cabana Fortress' 21-gun salute to the New President at the count of nine. Gently he began to move his troops into Havana, to police stations, doorways, roofs. His chief opponent, ex-President Grau's ubiquitous Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba...
...their heads together. Threatened with a general strike, they gave scant heed to the "revolutionary program" of last September. The big thing now was U. S. recognition. They were still bickering over Batista's candidate when they were jolted out of their chairs by the sound of Cabana Fortress guns. Boom-Boom-Boom -21 times...
...Havana the day before soldiers had laid hands on Machado's thick-witted brother Carlos near the Cabana Fortress. As a retired Colonel, Carlos was jailed in the Cabana Fortress to answer military charges of misappropriating public funds...
...themselves by 3 p. m. or be turned out. For an hour expectant crowds packed the sidewalks. As they waited listening for the four shots their bloodlust cooled. At 3 p. m. the four policemen, who still had not shot themselves, were driven off in a patrol wagon to Cabana Fortress. Meanwhile mobsters were on their wav out to the Machado estate where they butchered prize cattle, held a barbecue. Havana continued in turmoil...