Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northeast coast insurgent workers seized a sugar mill largely owned by Vincent Astor and Percy A. Rockefeller, shut up mill executives, wives and children in their quarters, cut off electricity and water. Fifteen sugar mills in Oriente province, mostly U. S.-owned, had been seized by rampaging Cuban proletarians. In Santiago de Cuba soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles felt obliged to deny rumors that he was hatching a conspiracy to oust President Grau...
...chief reason why no one can be quite certain of what is going to happen in the present crisis is that the existing government does not represent the Cuban people at large; rather does it stand for a group of patriotle students and professors with radical sympathies. They have undoubtedly a good program, but the question is, of course, whether or not they can obtain sufficient support...
Somewhere south of the West Indies and east of Florida lies that editorial goldmine known as the Cuban Situation. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt, Cabot Lodge, and the forces of American journalism won the island for us, it has presented a really pleasant problem, one which was colorful enough to make good copy, and small enough to afford a thrill without a menace. Before and after the turn of the century a rousing fight centered about the question of Imperialism, Dollar Diplomacy, and such, lapsing into obscurity only for a time, as the economic conquest of the sugar resources was completed...
Since the fall of Machado there has been much talk about the part Cuban students played in his overthrow. The largest, most effective organization in the revolution was the ABC. It started among young graduates of Havana University, fought Machado terrorism with counter-terrorism by cells of ten men each. Its effectiveness brought older, stabler heads into the ABC who took over its direction, set up the moderate government of Carlos de Cespedes. Older than the ABC is the Students' Directorate which has no prudent grey-head members, wants a Cuban Utopia here and now. It backs and directs...
...spring of his own attempts to talk out a solution of Cuba's basic economy. He explained that President Roosevelt does not want to intervene in Cuba, wants only to give reasonable protection to U. S. lives and investments. He promised U. S. recognition as soon as a Cuban Government can "give proof of ability to maintain public order, obtain public support and meet obligations." Immensely flattered, The Boys next day sent half their members through the country making speeches to get public order and support...