Word: fulgencio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Colonel Fulgencio Batista decided last summer to make himself the de jure as well as de facto boss of Cuba, he persuaded the politically potent Menocal family to renounce its support of Opposition Candidate Dr. Ramon Juan San Martin and swing crucial Havana his way. In return he got behind dapper, high-living 40-year-old Raul Garcia Menocal y Seva in the city elections, hoisted him from Havana's ballrooms and race courses to the mayoralty. Last week came Raul's induction. Immediately he ran into trouble...
Last week, amid a faint suspicion of judicial complaisance Cuba's tough, bronze little boss, Fulgencio Batista, got the job of President of the Republic, which he had badly wanted ever since he was elected, but not certified, last July. Immediately after last summer's national elections, Batista's varied opposition began to file complaints of some 2,000 local voting frauds which threatened to delay the President-elect's inauguration many months until Cuba's courts could pass on the evidence. But last week Cuba's Supreme Court, which fortnight ago had admitted...
...week Sept. 16 passed and no new Congress convened. Reason: there had been so many election disputes that only six Senators and no Representatives could be certified. Gleefully the opposition parties predicted that the tangle would delay the inauguration of the new President, dynamic, dark-eyed Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista...
...long finger of Cuba poked itself compellingly into the world's ribs last week. Scores of Lions swarmed into Havana for their international conference, found themselves in the middle of a Cuban Presidential election. Amid the traditional Latin-American accompaniment of sporadic shooting scraps, stocky Colonel Fulgencio Batista scored a thumping triumph as expected, complacently proclaimed "overwhelming victory is assured in all six provinces...
...Cuba will elect a new President, a Vice President, 36 Senators, 162 members of the House of Representatives, six provincial governors and more than 150 mayors. Cuba has a dozen political parties, roughly herded into one of two coalition groups: the Government coalition, whose candidate for President is Colonel Fulgencio Batista, and the opposition front, which nominated Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, onetime (1933-34) President and head of the "Revolutionary Party." Last week Dr. Grau got mad and withdrew...