Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short of Federal troops could restore order. ¶ President Roosevelt began to appoint special boards around the country to review veterans' cases of presumptive military disability, trim bogus claims off the pension rolls. The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were liberally represented on most boards. ¶ Cuba last week occupied a large part of the President's attention (see p. 15). After the coup d'état he ordered three U. S. destroyers to Cuban waters "to protect the lives and persons of American citizens," announced that his Government had no intention of intervention...
When President Machado flatly refused to treat with Mediator Welles, the Army officers knew it was for them to decide Cuba's fate. While the President slept, they discussed his obduracy, saw that they must either draw more of their countrymen's blood to uphold Machado, or depose him. Early Friday afternoon, Battalion No. 1 of the Cabana Fortress was first to train its guns upon the $2,000,000 Presidential Palace of Carrara marble, decorated by Manhattan's Tiffany Studios. The guns did not fire, but soon Castillo de la Real Fuerza and all other Havana...
...dead city, hushed by the terror of a brutal massacre, was the capital of Cuba last week. Eight years of steadily increased repression had culminated in an ominous, apprehensive silence. The shutters and doors of Havana were bolted, the streets deserted save for soldiers patrolling and police squads riding around in cars. "The Tyrant," paunchy, pock-faced President Gerardo Machado y Morales, had proclaimed "a state of war" in his effort to break his countrymen's general strike against his regime. It had spread throughout the island in all businesses and professions (TIME, Aug. 14). Food was hard...
General looting began when the offices of the Heraldo de Cuba, long the leading Machado news organ, were stormed by a crowd so reckless that typewriters, swivel chairs and even desks were tossed out of windows, injuring mobsters in many cases. After wrecking Heraldo de Cuba's presses and setting fire to the building, exultant citizens stormed the residential quarter of Havana, sacking mansion after mansion, wrecking automobiles and stealing everything movable from the house of Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara. Signs marking General Machado Avenue were torn down for a distance of three miles, the imposing Machado Monument...
...Ambassador Welles offered me a refuge in the United States." said Dr. Ferrara. "I leave criticism of Welles's policy in Cuba to History...