Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noisy, arrogant Colonel Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's would-be Dictator who lately rallied 100,000 Cuban peasants to his side with the highly original slogan of a "9% sugar tax to educate Cuban children"' (TIME, Dec. 28), was crowing and preening himself last week as never before...
Peasant-Conservative Batista, who has long been set on getting rid of head-in-the-clouds democratic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias, blatantly dragooned the Cuban Senate last week into voting the President out of office. The trumped-up impeachment charge against President Gomez was "interference with legislation.'' though he had done nothing worse than veto Batista's sugar-tax bill. Since this bill had been engineered by Batista from the beginning, the charge of "interference" struck many Cubans as ironical, but with the Army behind Batista the politicians promptly impeached and ousted Gomez...
...Christmas Sports Festival. Main events on a week-long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human and a horse, with famed Jesse Owens making his first track appearance as a professional...
...interest to him that President Miguel Moriano GÓmez y Arias was pushing through the Cuban Senate yet another radical constitution. Batista's concern was to harangue Cuba's peasants, farmers, canefield workers, sugar growers and the like, about his own pet form of "dictatorship" which is neither Fascism nor Stalinism, but Batistism. Like all devotees of isms, "The Savior of Cuba" has at least one cranky plank in his platform. This is a scheme to put a 9?-tax on every bag of sugar produced in Cuba and use the proceeds, estimated...
...Cuban law the bill had first to be passed as a whole, and then article by article...