Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rushed without warning to Principe Fortress and tortured to death, or kidnapped by the Porra and lynched. But Gerardo Machado knows what is in store for him. Always hoping to escape, somewhere, somehow, he last week begged and obtained permission to seek refuge in Canada. To confuse those Cuban avengers who will not rest, two means of escape were arranged. A seaplane was chartered, and also accommodations were engaged on the S. S. Lady Rodney for Bermuda and Halifax. On the latter he slipped away in the evening with only a few policemen and hotel porters...
...Cespedes declared the Machado administration and all its acts since May 1929 unconstitutional, wiped out the constitutional reforms of 1928 by which Boss Machado was able to pack Congress and the judiciary with his own henchmen, announced new general elections for Feb. 24, 1934. and restored intact the Cuban Constitution of 1901 which was inaugurated under Cuba's first and best President, the late Estrada Palma...
...figure growing daily larger on the Cuban scene is young Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz, leader of the Secret ABC and present Secretary of the Treasury. In his office last week he received U. S. reporters, wasted no time on the sins of the previous administration, but talked as frankly and directly as a Roosevelt New Dealer...
Last week it was announced that a special attache from the U. S. Treasury Department would be sent to the U. S. Embassy in Havana to study the condition and workings of the Cuban Treasury. His findings will be at the disposal of Minister Saenz, if desired...
...edge. Revived, he was taken back to Manhattan to recuperate. Also ill last week lay: Film Actress Claudette Colbert, after an appendectomy, in Hollywood; William Hartman Woodin Jr., son of the Secretary of the Treasury, of a heart attack, in Tucson, Ariz.; Alberto Barreras, president of the Cuban Senate, fugitive Machadista, of abrasions suffered when an automobile belonging to New York's ex-Mayor John F. Hylan in which he was riding collided with an ambulance on Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan; Stage Actress Grace George, of a nervous breakdown, in Manhattan; Mahatma Gandhi, unconditionally released by the British Government after...