Word: fulgencio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile other soldiers combed Havana. They dragged from bed at 6 a.m. a fine collection of former Army officers (including two ex-aides of ex-President Fulgencio Batista), one private, a few civilians. All the officers except one air force lieutenant had been dismissed from the service by President Grau...
Behind the grant lay a snarl of politics, tangled even for Cuba. In last year's election the Confederation of Cuban Workers fought against Grau, supported President Fulgencio Batista, who had legalized the Communist Party (now called the Popular Socialist Party), helped its labor branch develop political force...
...Ramon Grau San Martin's troubles multiplied. He faced a barrage of criticism from his own supporters for 1) not dealing with the acute food shortage; 2) hesitating to clean up the swaggering armed forces; 3) making bad political appointments. As adherents of his onetime patron, former President Fulgencio Batista, joined the attack, three mysterious bomb explosions rocked Havana...
Cuba's tough ex-President. Fulgencio Batista, was not in Cuba last week. He was making an ambitious tour of South America. Proclaiming himself a democratic hero, he blandly accepted praise for unexpectedly allowing his hand-picked candidate, Carlos Saladrigas, to be defeated for President in a fair election...
...elected President, his Vice President-elect Dr. Raúl de Cardenas* trotted nervously across a shadowy lawn where U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden was dining with friends. Drawing the Ambassador aside, he spluttered that rough, tough General Manuel Benitez, Chief of the National Police, planned to seize President Fulgencio Batista, prevent Grau from assuming the Presidency by setting up a military dictatorship...