Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana last week there was such tension, such scurrying of Government leaders to U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, the arbiter of every Cuban crisis, as there has not been since the collapse of Provisional President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin's Government (TIME, Jan. 22, 19-34). This pother seemed to be preparation for a showdown between Cuba's military and Cuba's politicians. Real Strong Man of the Army is ruthless Lieut. Colonel Inspector José Pedraza Calvera, but the military's mouthpiece is Colonel Fulgencio Batista who likes to play at being a dictator...
...Victoria Eugénie will now have to rush to her sick son in Switzerland, her sick son in Manhattan was feeling much better last week, except about his income which he receives in French francs. Applying for reduction of the $250 per month alimony he pays to a Cuban commoner, he urged the judge to make this cut because the franc has just been devalued...
...stating his willingness "to give the bearer . . . one of the best consulates now vacant," who confided State secrets to strangers and who was so inattentive that after weeks of discussion he would suddenly ask a question that betrayed complete ignorance of the subject discussed. After 27 months of the Cuban revolt, when Spanish armies had been sent to that island, a popular move for U. S. recognition of the rebels blocked by Fish, the U. S. policy carefully worked out, Grant abruptly asked his Secretary of State: "I hear that Spain is sending troops out to Cuba, is that...
...White armies win Spain's present civil war (see p. 20). Last week Her Majesty, traveling as "the Duchess of Toledo," arrived on the tragic errand of rushing to the bedside of her eldest son Alfonso. He renounced his rights as Spanish Crown Prince to marry a rich Cuban commoner (TIME, July 3, 1933), is now the Count of Covadonga, and as his mother landed he had just undergone the eleventh of a series of blood transfusions at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
...only censorship but bombing of the press is an old Cuban tactic and last week some daring Cubans, who were rumored to be in sympathy with the radical Spanish Government, decided to destroy two Havana newsorgans considered most sympathetic with Spain's Whites. A 12-year-old touring car in which were concealed 1,500 sticks of dynamite and a time-clock detonator was parked outside the editorial offices of Diario de la Marina. Meanwhile a truck parked in front of the newspaper El Pais blew up with an explosion heard for miles, wrecked El Pais...