Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuba. Here Secretary Hull did not stop, but when the ship to which he had transferred, the U. S. cruiser Richmond, reached Key West, he had a long two-hour conference with Acting Ambassador Caffery on Cuban affairs. Speeding to Washington, Mr. Hull gave correspondents to understand that the new Cuban regime would soon be recognized...
...began to move his troops into Havana, to police stations, doorways, roofs. His chief opponent, ex-President Grau's ubiquitous Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba's 1,000 sailors in his pocket, fled to a Cuban gunboat in the harbor. A few amiable soldiers and civilians stood guard around President Hevia's palace. Getting the heavy scent of trouble, the ABC revolutionary society boys handed around a fresh shipment of guns. Two days after he had been sworn in, President Hevia suddenly sent his resignation...
...torrid political climate. He was Major General Blanton Winship, U. S. A. retired, of Macon, Ga. General Winship is a rare type, an experienced U. S. colonial official. He entered the Army in '98, wears the ribbons of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrec tion, the Cuban Pacification, the Mexican Punitive Expedition, the World War. As far back as 1906, General Enoch Crowder recognized General Winship's administrational abilities by making him Acting Secretary of State and Justice of Cuba. He served as Calvin Coolidge's military aide, was sent to the Philippines as adviser...
...President Dr. Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch...
...Hevia failed when Guiteras, Secretary of War and Interior in the Grau San Martin cabinet, announced that the radical steps which he supported must be carried out and that his arch-enemy, Colonel Batista, must resign. In order to accomplish this, at his instigation the employees of the Cuban utilities trust went on strike and the government was forced to take over the company; yesterday morning all employees in the departments of Communications, Interior, Justice, Public Works, Instruction, and Health went on strike. Senor Guiteras then retired into his stronghold in the provinces. With the gauntlet thus thrown down...