Word: fulgencio
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...refusal to join Adolf Coeur de Lion's crusade kept the Nazi campaign from gaining headway among the more statesmanlike of Latin America's leaders. Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo joined Brazil's Getulio Vargas and Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in broadcasting good-neighborly greetings to the U.S. on the Fourth of July...
...President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba reaffirmed Cuba's neutrality to a workers' meeting...
...most predictable annual ornament, were fixing to lick the Giants, the draft (see p. 51), and all baseball attendance records, brash, red-haired Flatbush Boss Larry ("Barnum") MacPhail welcomed another boss to the Dodgers' Havana training ground, shook cordial hands with brash, black-haired Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
...seeds of trouble were sown back in 1933 when a brash, swarthy sergeant named Fulgencio Batista and several fellow sergeants ousted the corrupt officers' clique that controlled the Government and made themselves overlords of the shark-shaped island. Batista became boss. He promoted himself to Commander in Chief of the Army and pinned a colonel's epaulets on his shoulders. To Sergeant Jose Pedraza he gave the national police, and Sergeant Angel Gonzalez got the Navy. When he offered Sergeant Pedraza the rank of major, that worthy replied: "Don't bother. I've already made myself...
...Flowers. In Cuba's ornate Presidential Palace all was joy and flowers. Not only had the President suppressed a revolt; he had also become the father of a daughter; name, Elisa. Army and Navy planes zoomed low over the Palace to drop bouquets of flowers. Happy Fulgencio Batista decreed that every child born on the same day (about 180 new Cubans arrive daily) should receive a brand-new ten-peso note, a five-peso savings account and a shinv medal...