Word: club
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just before armed civilians seized the Havana airport. To the Dominican Republic, besides Batista, went Andrés Rivero Aguero, Batista's puppet President-elect, who was supposed to take office Feb. 24. (Another Ciudad Trujillo resident: Argentina's exiled Dictator Juan Perón.) The Jacksonville club included national Police Chief Pilar Garcia, worst of the terrorists, and Army Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla, whose unseemly wealth from import privileges led Cubans to dub Scotch whisky "Old Tabernilla." U.S. Gambler Meyer Lansky, who ran the casinos in several big resort hotels in a deal with Batista, caught...
Finally, although three weeks' notice of the date of election was given, no member of any final club called the Student Council to ask that the date be changed...
...date of the election coincided with Final Club elections...
...fourth point is the most significant one made, for it is true that some 100 seniors did not vote because Final Club dinners coincided with the Class Marshal balloting; but this again is a complaint that could and should have been made before the election and not after...
Former president Harry S. Truman will not speak here in mid-January as he had previously told the Young Democratic Club, Jay F. Leary, secretary of the club, announced last night...