Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cried Chief Sleuth Fors, "that an open state of rebellion and utter disregard for legally constituted authority exists throughout the nation." He immediately obtained 73 more warrants for prominent Cubans, and darkly hinted that the Cuban army was honeycombed with sedition...
...Sabbath calm of Cuban politics was suddenly broken last week by a series of loud and alarming reports...
...Alfonso Fors, head of the.judicial police, announced that a plot had been discovered to assassinate General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of the Cuban Republic since 1925, and to plunge the country in civil warfare with the idea of bringing about U. S. intervention. A certain Dr. Alejandro Vergara Leonard was named head of the conspiracy, and he and nine followers were arrested and flung into the grey, 18th century Castillo del Principe...
Meanwhile one of the 73 plotters was discovered in New York in the person of suave Octavio Seigle, founder of the Cuban Nationalist Party, now prudently selfexiled. Mario Seigle, a brother of Octavio, is general manager of the Chase National Bank in Havana. Francis, another brother, is president of the Banco del Comercio...
...natural, therefore, that sugarmen should look forward to 1929 with misgivings. Facing the certainty of huge Javanese production, the probability of an unlimited Cuban supply, sugarmen saw little reason to hope for high price levels. They could cling to no solid, saving spar. But they could clutch, if they liked, at either of two straws...