Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seasonal fruit and vegetable industry has shown remarkable improvement." Imports from the U. S. for the last quarter of 1934 were up 127%; customs collections for approximately the same period, up 50%; Havana bank clearings, up $60,000,000. All this, however, was just such "imperialistic optimism" as Cuban radicals expect from a U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. Much more remarkable was the fact that the interviewer who reported Mr. Caffery's words without criticism for the North American Newspaper Alliance was Imperialist-Baiting Author Carleton Beals...
...Cuban students, whose revolution had just failed, were calling the Government "more brutal and imperialistic" than the tyranny of Gerardo Machado which they overthrew two years ago. But what most enraged them was the fact that the Cuban people are swinging away from them and back to the old-line parties of the early Machado days. And, in snug Paris exile, Machado was saying, "Just as I expected." Meanwhile the Chase National Bank last week submitted to President Mendieta a long argument showing why his Government should resume interest payments on a $60,000,000 Chase-sponsored loan...
...strike went over splendidly. Newsworthy were Cuban enterprises that continued to function. The all-important sugar mills, with their season's grinding half done, ignored the strike but their activity was menaced when the railways stopped. Two open-shop Havana newspapers kept publishing. Soldiers, marines, police and strikebreakers ran a few street cars, the radio, telegraph and the main Havana postoffice, the docks, power plants, water works and tax collection offices. That was all. Most Government departments, which President Mendieta had filled with the supporters of his onetime allies, struck. The staff of a Havana insane asylum walked...
...Mendieta seemed near the end of his rope but Cubans had forgotten that in his youth their President was famed for his violent temper and his willingness to fight with his fists, a practice always impressive to Latins. Abruptly last week the hard-pressed President declared a dictatorship far more absolute than anything of Tyrant Machado's. Most sacred of Cuban fetishes is the autonomy of Havana University but President Mendieta had the University seized by soldiers, who found vast stores of ammunition and a few stolen cars on the campus. He announced that all Government employes...
...have never wanted to make use of but that I am disposed to demonstrate if necessary. . . . If the campaign now confronting me was directed only against the Government, I could meet it with that attitude, but it is being directed against wealth and property, peace and order, and the Cuban family...