Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba. Hurricane groped across the Bahama Bank north of Cuba, turned away from Cuba, killed seven in the Bahamas, turned again and struck at Cuba's northern hump. In Havana harbor, huge seas overthrew the Malecon sea wall, scattered stone blocks like spume, flooded the water- front six blocks inland to a depth of six feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas...
...Cuba's hurricane whirled away towards Texas...
Clipped Ambassador Welles in Havana to the revolting non-commissioned officers: "If the military leaders of the movement will guarantee lives and property and maintain peace and order, the sovereignty of Cuba can be saved...
Hurricane and revolt again struck Cuba last week. Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes had left Havana for Sagua la Grande in north central Cuba to survey the storm damage and relief measures (see p. 18). Locum tenens at Havana was Col. Horacio' Ferrer, onetime Army surgeon and oculist who last month refused the Army's nomination as Provi- sional President. Early in the week, to deal with the restless Army, President de Cespedes made Col. Ferrer Secretary of War. Secretary Ferrer promptly barked : "The natural orgy that followed Machado's overthrow is over. The troops henceforth...
Throughout Cuba the labor unions, released after eight years' suppression, were agitating among the unorganized sugar-mill and cane field workers of the interior, who get an average wage of 20? a day. Demanding an increase to 50? a day, the labor leaders called strikes all through the interior, began to recruit by force and intimidation. Violence flared up in other Cuban industries...