Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power. They had refrained from legislating to argue over such matters as jobs. Now the Government, reported dutiful Señor Laredo Bru, was going to set things moving again by holding elections for its long-deferred Constituent Assembly which, among other acts, is supposed to write a new Cuban constitution...
...news that onetime President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, who has been living in Miami since Boss Batista turned him out in January 1934, was proposing to return. Strong though General Menocal is, Dr. Grau, a deep Pink if not a real Red, is even stronger with the Cuban electorate, and Batista might welcome him back as an ally to stave off eclipse by the martial Menocal...
These stirrings gave Havana a high political fever, with rumors of new coalitions circulating hourly. About all that any Cuban politician knew surely was that, let coalitions form where they might, for the moment the undisputed boss of Cuba was husky, brown Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar...
...Cuban American were allowed to handle the conversion, they promised to set up a Cuban national currency of 100,000,000 silver pesos. These Promoter Greñas and his bankers said they were ready to furnish at the rate of 5,000,000 a month. Cuba would have 2,500,000 each month as a seigniorage, would pay for the rest by turning over the U. S. and foreign currency captured through Cuba's sizable export balance. With its own currency Cuba could then set up a national bank to furnish Cubans with foreign credit in exchange...
Died. Major Ulciseno Franco Granero, 56, chief of Cuban President Federico Laredo Bru's aides; of cancer of the stomach; in Havana. He was one of the army sergeants who revolted in 1933 against Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes under his close friend Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who made him chief of the Cuban national police...