Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While sub-machine-gunners of the Chicago gangster type assassinated the chief of Cuba's Secret Police and two aides who were riding in his car (TIME, July 18) Motorcycle Policeman Felix del Cristo ("Felix of the Christ") hid behind a monumental beacon, neither chased the gangster car nor took its number...
...marriage resulted in two children and a dissolution in 1914. Two years later Mr. Sabin wooed & won Pauline Morton Smith. His friend and business associate William Chapman Potter, Guaranty Trust's President, had married her sister Caroline, now the wife of Harry Frank Guggenheim, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. The precise moment at which Mrs. Sabin, who says she originally favored Prohibition for her two sons' sake, decided to found the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform occurred during a Congressional hearing in 1928 at which Mrs. Ella Boole, the crafty old head of the Woman...
...Over Cuba's aristocratic House of Mendoza hovered last week scandal and disgrace. Mendoza menfolk are among Cuba's leading lawyers. They represent American Sugar Refining, Electric Bond & Share. Last month socialite Senora Mariana de la Torre Mendoza became the first woman ever arraigned before a Cuban court martial. She, her son Dr. Igacio Mendoza and a nephew, were charged with conspiracy to assassinate on June 10, by means of a 6-lb. dynamite bomb, General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of Cuba...
...properly speaking a President but an out & out Dictator, General Machado recently signed a bill passed by Cuba's Parliament at his behest extending the suspension of constitutional guarantees until the expiration of his term in 1935. In effect Cuba has been under martial law since her citizens' constitutional rights were suspended Dec. 11, 1930. National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank of New York and Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. lately joined in loaning the Machado Government $2,278,125 which it needed June 30 to meet payments on Cuba...
Keystone man in the Machado regime was Capt. Miguel Calvo, chief of Cuba's Secret Police, foiler of numberless plots against the President. As Captain Calvo rode down the broad Malecon with two Havana policemen one day last week, a submachine gun suddenly began to spat-spat. The two policemen were instantly killed. Captain Calvo was rushed to a hos pital, died with 36 slugs in his body. The submachine gunners escaped unidentified...