Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cuba last week had its first revolution in seven years. Compared with the butcheries that clotted up the regimes of Gerardo ("Tyrant") Machado and preceding Cuban presidents, it was as genteel as a dowager's hiccup...
...lighthouses, fishing and customs went to the Navy. Many officers began to collect double and triple salaries for these additional duties. To his allotted tasks, Police Chief Pedraza added the State lottery and illegal numbers racket, and Navy Chief Gonzalez collared the extensive contraband trade that centred around Cuba...
...years of success at remaining in power made Batista tolerant and social-minded, but only quickened the appetites of certain henchmen. Determined to put Cuba on a democratic basis that would convince the U.S. Treasury it was a good loan risk, Batista turned the Army over to Pedraza, promoted to colonel in 1936, got himself elected President. Last June he ratified a constitution that removed all civic concessions from the Army and Navy and reduced them to a position of subservience to the State. He also accorded labor extensive rights, to the annoyance of native and foreign investors. World...
...Gonzalez. Arriving in Florida, Gonzalez spoke like a defeated U. S. Presidential candidate. "1 bear President Batista only gratitude." he said, "and want to thank him for all the kindness he has shown me in the past and while I was getting ready to sail for the United States." Cuba had indeed progressed far since 1933, when a police chief who had lost favor was shot, hanged, burned and finally hacked to bits...
...Flowers. In Cuba's ornate Presidential Palace all was joy and flowers. Not only had the President suppressed a revolt; he had also become the father of a daughter; name, Elisa. Army and Navy planes zoomed low over the Palace to drop bouquets of flowers. Happy Fulgencio Batista decreed that every child born on the same day (about 180 new Cubans arrive daily) should receive a brand-new ten-peso note, a five-peso savings account and a shinv medal...