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Word: fulgencio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurt 27, and was credited with having done $200,000 damage. Police at once threw a cordon around the area, discovered the touring car full of dynamite and disconnected its time-clock before it could explode. "Today's dynamiting is truly lamentable," commented dictatorial Cuban Army Chief Colonel Fulgencio Batista, "because it shows the impossibility of reconciliation between various elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Lousy Lovers | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...President promised amnesty to Cuba's vast, stormy brood of political prisoners and exiles but warned: "It is necessary that the morbid state of cruel insanity of killing each other shall not re-turn." No contemporary Cuban has taken more lives than Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista, whose oversized (14,000) Army gives him the sinister status of an unofficial dictator. President Gómez will find his biggest job to ease Batista out of the saddle. As a starter last week he put an end to Batista's habitual procedure of stepping out on the Presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: No. 2's No. 6 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...election had been postponed half a dozen times. The Negro Communist Left and the semi-Fascist ABC had refused to put up candidates, their leaders being either in exile or in mortal fear of Army Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Meanwhile, over a year ago, a black-browed, cigar-sucking little man named Miguel Mariano Gomez began plugging steadily at building himself into Cuba's dark horse. He was the son of Cuba's second President, Jose Miguel Gomez. He had been an insurgent "Liberal" Mayor of Havana opposed to tyrannical "Liberal" Machado. He had a plump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Plugger's Victory | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...election would be decisive but the favored candidate remained this week Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez, who, it is expected, will be supported by a Nationalist-Liberal-Republican party coalition and who is seemingly favored by Cuba's military "Strong Man," genial, naïve, back-seat-taking Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who two years ago was a simple sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: 5th, Kidnapping & 6th | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...that such a move would be unconstitutional, they refused to fall back into line. Dr. Mendieta's resignation has allowed a compromise and his place will be filled by Dr. Barnet who, as Secretary of State is the logical choice and who has the support of the army chief, Fulgencio Batista...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUBA | 12/14/1935 | See Source »

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