Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncertainty which has characterized Cuban political alignments since the fall of Machado has apparently at last been dispelled. The final attempt at compromise was the elevation of Hevia to the presidency; affairs, however, have developed with such rapidity that compromise has become impossible and the two parties have been forced out in the open, thus clearly defining both the issue at stake, and the adherents on each side. On one side are the conservatives comprising the Nationalist party and the military forces controlled by Colonel Batista; arrayed against them is the Revolutionary junta which engineered the revolt against Machado...
...represents an investment of about two hundred million dollars; consequently there is bound to be a terrific howl raised in Wall Street for American intervention, and the bankers will doubtless seize this opportunity for pressing their claims on Mr. Roosevelt. Even more serious is the news that the Cuban government plans to take over in the same summary fashion the United Railways Company which is British owned. Should this occur Mr. Roosevelt will indeed be faced by a problem which will tax all his powers of statesmanship. If he cannot get some sort of guarantee from the Cuban government that...
...Equal Civil & Political Rights rushed up to it with pens poised and were only stopped from signing by pickets hostile to the Treaty who kept loudly calling it by name. In the squash and rush, dozens of delegates signed in apparent ignorance of a remarkable discovery by Cuban Chief Delegate Angel Alberto Giraudy: all but one of the documents presented for signing were in effect blanks! Not having had time to prepare complete documents, the Conference Secretariat had covered with words only the last page of most documents, leaving nearly all the front pages white and empty. "Scandalous!"' cried...
With few friends and little cash, Cuba's President Ramon Grau considered it more important to pay his Army last week than to send to the U. S. $3,950,000 due in interest and arrears on public works loans contracted by deposed Dictator Machado. Bluntly Cuban Secretary of the Treasury Colonel Manuel Despaigne announced that Cuba would default on these obligations "until such time as the whole situation can be thoroughly discussed ... to determine which part if any [of the obligations] is legal." He declared that the $62,000,000 principal of the loans was secured by special...
...agreed also on the Roosevelt Recovery program. Hitler's rise to power. Other "biggest'' stories, chosen by one or more: California earthquake (TIME, March 20; April 3), San Jose lynchings (TIME, Dec. 4), death of President Coolidge (TIME, Jan. 16), the Cuban revolution (TIME, Aug. 21, et seq.), Wiley Post's world flight (TIME, July 31), Lindbergh's four-continent flight (TIME, July 31, et seq.), defeat of Tammany (TIME...