Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters a Happy New Year, closed his desk, hurried across town to the sanctuary of the Mexican Embassy. The front page of El Pais that morning carried a forbidden photograph of the body of 17-year-old Juan Gonzalez Rubiera, pierced by eleven bullets from the guns of Cuban secret police for "attempting to escape." Police hung around the newspaper office for days...
...consequences of independence. The Philippine Legislature, sitting as an Independence Commission, wrangled and haggled from dawn to dark over H. R. 7233. Manuel Quezon, President of the Senate, denounced it as an insincere "joke," claimed it was foisted on the islands by National City Bank's investment in Cuban sugar. Cries of "Immediate independence or nothing!" rang through the chamber. Finally the legislature resolved to cable its Washington representatives that it was "willing" to have President Hoover sign the measure but not urging...
...Manhattan, small Eligio Sardinias ("Kid Chocolate"), Cuban featherweight who looks as though he were made out of varnished ebony matchsticks, was defending his championship against Fidel La Barba, flyweight champion who defaulted his title five years ago to complete his education at Stanford. It was the 12th round and La Barba - who had been steadily pounding his left fist against Chocolate's ribs and getting his own head steadily thumped while doing so - had finally found the opening he wanted. He brought his left fist up, hard, against the point of Chocolate's jaw. Chocolate teetered, rolled...
Early one afternoon Speaker Clemente Vazquez Bello of the Cuban Senate, who looked like a retired matador and was a good friend of President Gerardo Machado, stepped jauntily from his house next to the Havana Country Club and into his car to drive to the Senate. Down the block roared an open touring car containing seven hot-eyed young men with a riot gun. They passed with a rattle of shots. A dozen bullets struck Dr. Vazquez Bello, more than 60 punctured the car, the chauffeur was wounded in the head. Bleeding profusely, he was still able to drive...
...thoughtfully inspected Colon Cemetery where the interment was to have taken place. They found not one but 23 separate bombs planted near the spot marked for Dr. Vazquez Bello's grave, with enough dynamite to blow up the entire Vazquez Bello family, most of the heads of the Cuban Government who were expected to attend, and a good section of the cemetery. An electric wire ran to a Chinese burying ground eight blocks away...