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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dictator. Franklin Roosevelt five years ago sent aristocratic Ambassador Sumner Welles to pluck Cuba from under the heel of bloody President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado. That chunky brown soldier, Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, organized a revolt against Ambassador Welles's dummy President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, made himself Cuba's army chief and proceeded to set up and knock down presidents of his own in a way that has made Dictator Machado look almost constitutional...
...Angriff went on with a long list of "the intellectual originators of the crime'' which included, strangely enough, certain French Rightists like Henri de Kerillis but not the French Jewish Socialist on whom Nazis usually vent spleen, Leon Blum. Obvious reason: Blum and his Socialists last week had not broken with French Premier Edouard Daladier, one of the Munich "Big Four...
Plymouth, Chrysler's popular-price car, looks like Chrysler, De Soto and Dodge, has a 114 in. wheelbase, longest any Plymouth ever had. Its five Roadkings ($740), eight DeLuxes ($805), all turn up 82 h.p. Catchiest number showing is the convertible coupé, with a top that slides magically into place or back at the twist of a dashboard knob. Secret: intake vacuum power...
...Salinas, Calif., a retired physician, Dr. Jaime De Angulo, 54, pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny, was sentenced to a year in jail. He asked to be put on probation instead, because he was a claustrophobe. The plea was granted...
...most ambitious tour de force so far, Testament is Author Hutchinson's try at assimilating Russia: a Russian novel, with an all-Russian cast of characters, covering the last years of the War and the first years of the Revolution. In its length (693 pages), its crowded, turbulent background, its hero-intellectual (a Christ-like count who opposes both Tsarism and the Revolution), Testament is clearly patterned after the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky...