Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a four-day moratorium, the doors of Cuban banks opened slightly. Only currency deposits were accepted; withdrawals were limited until March 26 to 10% of commercial and savings accounts. Except for cinemas, business withstood the bank holiday reasonably well. Cinema houses closed in towns throughout the provinces due to the fact that managers had not only a cash shortage to contend with but bombs thrown by enemies of the Machado administration...
After perusing TIME'S Cuba story in the March 13 issue. Colonel Guerrerro, Chief Cuban Press Censor and Judge Advocate General of the Cuban Army, ordered TIME copies confiscated for the second consecutive week. Said he: 'If TIME keeps this up I shall feel like permanently prohibiting its entry into Cuba...
First attaching a stout string, Manhattan's Chase National Bank last week extended its present $20,000,000 credit to the Cuban Government for another two years. The string: extension is to be by successive 60-day renewals of the principal at 5½%, the bank to collect ¼% commission on each renewal...
...Bands of guerrillas raided towns and military outposts, burned plantations, cut wires, dynamited railroad tracks. A bloody skirmish was fought in Camaguey province. In Oriente rebels burned 200,000,000 Ib. of sugar cane at the Manati sugar mill. At Manzanillo a mob stormed the office of Cuban Electric Co. (subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share). Four trains were derailed. Another reached Havana bullet-riddled...
...Cuban rebels considered the Hoover Administration the chief prop of President Machado's regime. Prematurely last week they rejoiced at the inauguration of President Roosevelt, no friend to violence...