Word: chiba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ortodoxos" are members of Chibás' own Cuban People's Party. "Eddy" Chiba ás was once an Autentico, a member of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, which has elected the last two Presidents of Cuba. But in 1947 he broke with the party, was soon denouncing Autentico officeholders as crooks and plunderers on his Sunday-night radio broadcasts. Cubans listened in fascination as Chibás assailed government graft and embezzlement. But he could never make his hottest accusations stick. For Chibás, the futile search for proof has been bitterly frustrating. "People...
Candidates of most parties, however, had done little more than cudgel their brains for spectacular schemes to attract attention. A woman candidate had persuaded one of her pretty girl campaign workers to do a strip for the cause. In a Chiba Prefecture town another candidate had stationed henchmen in all the local firehouses. Whenever an alarm came in, the watchmen tipped off campaign headquarters and the candidate's loudspeaker truck sped off to the scene of the fire to harangue the crowd...