Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lapsing into obscurity only for a time, as the economic conquest of the sugar resources was completed and as we turned our eyes to more pressing affairs, here and in Europe. But now with the violent removal of Butcher Machado, the United States becomes once more amusedly interested in Cuba Libre. And it is likely to remain so, for Cuba has now been torn into such utterly discordant groups that plenty of trouble can be expected. The island has a powerful labor movement on one side, an intermediate Fascist sect, an army divided amongst itself, and in the background American...
...horns of Cuba's dilemma last week were the two terra cotta towers of Havana's elaborate Hotel National. There 400 army and navy officers who refused to accept the student-supported government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, some in undershirts, some in crumpled linen suits but all with thumping big pistols at their waists, were marooned, peeling their own potatoes, running the elevators, making the beds. The guests, including U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, had departed. So had the staff, with the exception of two managers who felt a mariner's duty to stick...
Directorio Estudiantil The real rulers of Cuba last week were not the sergeant-led army, nor the Cabinet of President Grau San Martin, but a group of 30 tousle-haired, secretly worried young people known as the Directorio Estudiantil All had been oppressed, not a few had been imprisoned and tortured, by Machado the Butcher. The youngest is 19, the oldest 30, and all were students of the University of Havana which was shut by Dictator Machado...
...what he was doing about them. He showed that those problems (unemployment, debts, foreign trade, crime) were much the same as the problems The Boys were having such trouble with. He went back to the beginnings last spring of his own attempts to talk out a solution of Cuba's basic economy. He explained that President Roosevelt does not want to intervene in Cuba, wants only to give reasonable protection to U. S. lives and investments. He promised U. S. recognition as soon as a Cuban Government can "give proof of ability to maintain public order, obtain public support...
...Lieut.-Commander Donald M. Carpenter was flying to Panama- purely routine. Few hours later the Press, already excited by the naval mobilization in Cuban waters headlined: SIX NAVY PLANES ON MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics crackled their progress-over Pamlico Sound, passing the western tip of Cuba, over Grand Cayman. Not until Panama was the nearest land would the Bureau admit that Squadron 5F was out for the world's record for a non-stop flight-in-formation. After 25 hr. of methodical flight, five of the 5F sextet swooped down on the naval base...