Word: camag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prior, Good Neighbor Roosevelt's most obstreperous neighbor, Cuba's Army Chief and Strong Man, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, had dramatically tightened his hold on the island which he now rules. Returning from a long week end in Camagüey Province to his gleaming, refurbished Camp Columbia ten miles outside Havana, Boss Batista met his Capitol lieutenants to hear details of how the lower house of Cuba's 16th Congress was staging a legislative "standup" strike in the corridors outside their chamber. For a full week they had refused to take their seats in number sufficient...
...legal fiction," and demanding that the Army stay clear of the elections for the Constituent Assembly. Grizzled, conservative old General Mario Menocal, vice president and smarting under his finessing by Republican Gómez in last year's Batistafied election, finished grinding sugar at his central (mill) in Camagüey and turned up in Havana for "unofficial talks" with Dr. Gómez. That was exciting enough, but not nearly so much a sign of political spring as the news that onetime President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, who has been living in Miami since Boss Batista turned...