Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruling on an appeal by Excelsior El Pais, a newspaper suppressed by President Machado's so-called "gag decree," the Cuban Supreme Court upheld the decree last week, thus reversed reports current in Havana (TIME, Feb. 2) that the Court had prepared a decision holding the President's act unconstitutional...
While he was supposed to be mounting guard on the roof of the President's Palace one night last week, a Cuban soldier sauntered over to the ventilating pipe above President Gerardo Machado y Morales' bathroom...
...bomb is only one bomb. In a single night last week 13 bombs exploded in various quarters of the City of Havana. Nobody was killed. Most Cuban bombs are about as potent as cannon crackers-that of the faithless roof guard being an exception. Just to show how steady his nerves were, President Machado made public appearance on the Cuban Independence Day ("The Day of the Shout of Revolution'') last week, and inaugurated Cuba's brand new $18,000,000 Capitol Building...
Problem: How to praise the original Cuban Revolution (against Spain) without suggesting to an excitable audience that a new revolution (against the Dictatorship) would be equally praiseworthy...
...Cuban Philo. In the best tradition of detective fiction, Cuban Lieut.-Colonel Erasmo Delgado proceeded to unravel deductively The Mystery of the Bathroom Bomb...