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...companies as an outrageous example of "dollar diplomacy." Stories of the backing of Dictator Machado by U. S. tycoons are even older than stories of Dictator Machado's murders. A few facts are undisputed. In 1924 horn-rimmed Gerardo Machado y Morales was an officer of the Santa Clara subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, to whom he had sold his own power company a few months earlier. His son-in-law, Jose Emilio Obregon. sometimes called the "Wood Louse" because of his handling of shiploads of lumber donated to Cuba by the American Red Cross after the 1926 hurricane...
Cuba's persistent restlessness brought murder and sudden death last week. In Santa Clara City somebody who disliked President Gerardo Machado planted a bomb in the Hotel Santa Clara. When it exploded it killed one Manuel Gonzales. 32, a Spanish salesman for lottery tickets. A small bomb exploded in front of a Havana tax office. A policeman reached the scene just in time to have his left hand blown off by a second, bigger bomb. At Guanabacoa a earful of men poured slugs from sawed-off shotguns into Military Supervisor Captain Oscar Pau, who had been accused of atrocities...
...loves cockfighting and cannot remember names. He has no wit, little education. He can read and write a little, does odd jobs for his brother, but gets into bullheaded trouble. A Cuban Senator, he thinks he wants to control the party machine of the Liberal Party of Santa Clara Province. Santa Clara's boss is now Juan Antonio Vasquez Bello, Machado henchman and brother of Machado's late good friend Clemente, who was assassinated last year. Last week a Vasquez Bello man, Representative Arturo B. Aleman, wrote a letter to the newspaper Information answering small gossip...
Thirty-three years ago a ruddy-cheeked Russian who wore startlingly high collars and frizzly hair standing on end arrived in the U. S. to give piano recitals. U. S. audiences took instantly to Ossip Salomonowitsch Gabrilowitsch. He became a fixture on the U. S. musical scene, married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, in 1918 became conductor of the Detroit Symphony. When Violinist Albert Spalding started to plow out his career, he reversed the route Gabrilowitsch had taken. In the U. S. Spalding found that it was a handicap to be the handsome, athletic-looking...
...Santa Clara's Play...