Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election at all for eight years, no election even moderately honest for 20. Most politicos, who preferred their own voices to the people's votes, had made certain that last week's election would prove as little as possible. It was the quietest election in Cuban history, for which U. S. bigwigs in Havana gave much credit to able U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery...
...fight, Promoter Jacobs took a hurried glance at what he later described as "a bodyguard of six machine-gunners" sent to meet his plane, promptly decided that conditions in Cuba were too unsettled for major prizefight ventures, postponed Louis v. Gastanaga indefinitely, returned to New York. The Cuban Tourist Commission termed his statements "outrageous," threatened to bring them to the attention of the U. S. Secretary of State. The Cuban Boxing Commission suspended Promoter Jacobs for six months, fined him $500. Havana Promoter Samuel Tolon, who was to have been his partner, promised to sue Promoter Jacobs...
...pistols shot the radio tubes and equipment of station CMQ to blazes for a $40,000 loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...
Colonel Mendieta was the fifth President of his troubled country since 1933, when Cuba overthrew her "tyrant" General Gerardo Machado, who now lives in Europe. There was no critical reason why he should resign, but the Cuban political snarl had at last grown too involved and ominous for Colonel Mendieta. With the beauty of phrase which comes readily to Cuban orators, he abruptly declared: "The Cuban people said when they called me to the Presidency that it would be as the nation's savior. Now I shall again be the nation's savior, if I resign. Hence...
...week's end the ostensibly irrelevant but to Cuban politicians basically fascinating ransom of $300,000 for Sugar Tycoon Castano was understood to have been paid. In Cuba such major kidnappings are commonly supposed to be the work of patriots who can think of no other way to raise enough money for a revolution. Sexagenarian Castano was finally discovered by soldiers in the suburbs, said no ransom had been paid...