Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Mendieta was the fifth President of his troubled country since 1933, when Cuba overthrew her "tyrant" General Gerardo Machado, who now lives in Europe. There was no critical reason why he should resign, but the Cuban political snarl had at last grown too involved and ominous for Colonel Mendieta. With the beauty of phrase which comes readily to Cuban orators, he abruptly declared: "The Cuban people said when they called me to the Presidency that it would be as the nation's savior. Now I shall again be the nation's savior, if I resign. Hence...
Automatically this made Cuba's colorless and cautious Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vinagres Acting President. Next day the electoral College elected him the Republic's sixth President in 28 months. He clung to about the only thing in Cuba's political ferment he could cling to, the date set by Princeton's Dodds for the next regular election of a President of Cuba...
...Cubans thought this election would be decisive but the favored candidate remained this week Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez, who, it is expected, will be supported by a Nationalist-Liberal-Republican party coalition and who is seemingly favored by Cuba's military "Strong Man," genial, naïve, back-seat-taking Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who two years ago was a simple sergeant...
...once was called "the best known North American in Central and South America." It was not because he was president of Princeton University that the Cuban Government had sent a hurry call for Harold Willis Dodds. The Government had on its hands an electoral tangle which had caused Cuba's Presidential election to be postponed three times in a year...
Clutching a hastily packed suitcase, Expert Dodds hurried last week to the palace of Cuba's Provisional President Carlos Mendieta. Since 1928 Cuba has had six Presidents but no elections. Up to last month President Mendieta's long promised elections were scheduled for Dec. 15. No. 1 candidate was Miguel Mariano Gomez, officially supported by two parties including Mendieta's Nationalists. No. 2 candidate was goateed, onetime President Mario Garcia Menocal. A victory of the Gomez coalition over the Menocalistas depended, however, on its receiving the votes of a rebellious wing of the Liberal Party, whose official...