Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas' famed museum of early Cuban relics fell. Members of the ABC revolutionary society, police and soldiers went out potting for the storm-spawn of looters, killed five in Havana, making the hurricane's total score more than 80 dead. By destroying enormous crops of sugar cane, blowing down sugar warehouses, it slightly alleviated Cuba...
Professed aim of last week's revolt was a new provisional government, which would call a constituent assembly to meet before the general election which Provisional President de Cespedes had promised to hold next February. Until February the old-fashioned Cuban Constitution of 1901 was to be reinstated. Immediate cause of the enlisted men's dissatisfaction was President de Cespedes' proposal to reduce their numbers and pay. Fundamental to everything, however, is the national, sugar-coated impoverishment with which President de Cespedes had hoped to tussle this week...
...among the unorganized sugar-mill and cane field workers of the interior, who get an average wage of 20? a day. Demanding an increase to 50? a day, the labor leaders called strikes all through the interior, began to recruit by force and intimidation. Violence flared up in other Cuban industries...
...accused vibrant Mr. Berle, acting as the Farm Adjustment Administration's counsel, of being "prejudiced in favor of refining interests in Cuba." Two days later President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Berle financial adviser to the U. S. Embassy in Cuba. He expected to spend a fortnight sizing up the Cuban Treasury and Cuban sugar. His findings will be "made available to the Cuban Government." With Mr. Berle last week went another financial adviser, John Laylin, special assistant to Under-Secretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson. The two were expected to be back in Washington before Ambassador-designate Jefferson Caffery goes...
...Montreal, two Cuban bodyguards rushed him down the gangplank into a waiting automobile. Canadian police formed around him, escorted him at breakneck speed to the Mount Royal Hotel. Safe in the suite which General Italo Balbo occupied two months ago, he told newshawks : "We have with us barely sufficient pocket money to meet our traveling expenses. All my property, real and otherwise, is in Cuba and I have no money in any bank outside of Cuba...