Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuban politics a zero hour came last week when opponents of provisional President Carlos Mendieta hired suburban Havana radio station CMQ to criticize the new electoral plan devised by Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds (TIME, Dec. 16) and radio station COCO announced a speech in praise of the plan to be made by the Chief Executive. Day of the speeches the Communications Department ordered CMQ to cancel its anti-Dodds speech...
...morning plane from Miami settled down to a landing in Havana and out stepped a bespectacled, rumple-haired man who once was called "the best known North American in Central and South America." It was not because he was president of Princeton University that the Cuban Government had sent a hurry call for Harold Willis Dodds. The Government had on its hands an electoral tangle which had caused Cuba's Presidential election to be postponed three times in a year...
...throes of fear. A quick succession of presidents, including Grau San. Martin, de Cespedes and finally Mendieta made for suspicion and distrust. The efforts of Dr. BcBain of Columbia resulted in a new electoral system, and the government of the United States was largely instrumental in advising the Cuban government during the remodelling of its constitution. With these vital changes came a feeling of trust and good-will and through the reciprocal tariff agreement Cuba was largely restored to that prosperity which was hers eight years before. Under the provisional president, Dr. Mendieta, legal elections were set for December...
...Wheeler popped up in Havana last week at the behest of unhappy holders of $40,000,000 of Public Works bonds issued in the U. S. in the twilight of the Machado dictatorship. After Machado fled, the Grau San Martin Government repudiated the loan as illegally contracted, and the Cuban Supreme Court is now pondering charges that the Machado Administration and Chase National Bank, which underwrote the issue, had "usurped authority and entered into bribery." Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase indignantly denied such irregularity but since 1933 Cuba has paid nothing on either the $40,000,000 of bonds owned...
...Ambassador Jefferson Caffery obligingly arranged an interview at the Presidential Palace. As everyone expected, President Mendieta politely pointed out that nothing could be done until his provisional Government was replaced by an elected one. And after the interview Senator Nye made an awkward effort to appease Cuban feeling, declaring: "We made no demands for payment nor was there any peremptory tone in our conference with Mendieta. . . . Cuba is not the only nation that needs to be spanked for not meeting its foreign obligations...