Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, amid a faint suspicion of judicial complaisance Cuba's tough, bronze little boss, Fulgencio Batista, got the job of President of the Republic, which he had badly wanted ever since he was elected, but not certified, last July. Immediately after last summer's national elections, Batista's varied opposition began to file complaints of some 2,000 local voting frauds which threatened to delay the President-elect's inauguration many months until Cuba's courts could pass on the evidence. But last week Cuba's Supreme Court, which fortnight ago had admitted...
...months ago Cuba voted herself a new Senate and House of Representatives, a new President. The new Senate and House were to convene Sept. 16. On Oct. 10 the new President was to be inaugurated. This week Sept. 16 passed and no new Congress convened. Reason: there had been so many election disputes that only six Senators and no Representatives could be certified. Gleefully the opposition parties predicted that the tangle would delay the inauguration of the new President, dynamic, dark-eyed Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista...
...states of the United States are represented among the new men, excepting Nevada, South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The students also come from England, France, Norway, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canal Zone, Bermuda, and Hawaii...
This summer the cruises have gone to Guantanamo, Cuba. Work on them has consisted in the main of five hours of lectures with the remainder of the time being occupied in washing the decks...
This week another of Joseph Medill's dynasty, brown-eyed, athletic, 30-year-old Alicia Patterson, the Captain's daughter, became a publisher. Wife (since July 1939) of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, Alicia has like him been a flying enthusiast, been married thrice. (Husband I was the late James Simpson Jr., son of Marshall Field & Co.'s onetime chairman; Husband II was Broker Joseph W. Brooks.) Her newly founded paper: an evening tabloid, Newsday, a "country newspaper" for rich, suburban Nassau County...