Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Residents of Florida, of the Florida Keys, of Cuba, gulped. The progress of the city-swasher was unpredictable, they could only wait...
...confused with Francesco de Pinedo, Italian round-the-world flyer, is Francisco de Pineda, strong-armed Cuban convict. A confessed murderer serving a life term, Convict de Pineda is the Republic of Cuba's official death-dealer. He rejoices in the title of "Minister of Executions." Last week he was ordered to execute a former friend for a crime in which the Minister of Executions himself had admittedly been an accomplice...
Today the official engine of execution at Havana is the garrote, a strangling machine. Up to four years ago Cuba's garrote reposed in the National Museum, shuddered at by thrill-seekers as a barbarous relic of the old Spanish regime. Then in 1925 it was restored to use by the suave but ruthlessly dictating Cuban who is still President, His Excellency General Gerardo Machadoy Morales. Though of mild appearance and a wearer of business-like tortoise-shell spectacles General Machadoy has been accused of having political enemies thrown to sharks (TIME, March n). His revival of garroting...
Francisco de Pineda was captured, condemned to death. Ziolo Rodrignez Rabano, one of his accomplices, escaped to Florida. Because the then Minister of Executions had been released from jail "for faithful services rendered," Cuba at that time lacked an executioner. Francisco de Pineda eloquently argued his own qualifications for the position. He got the job, and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment...
...White House confirmed the news from Cuba that the Cuban government had decided that Harry F. Guggenheim, scion of the great mining family, administrator of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, would...