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...historical role in the defense of democratic principles." For Cuba's Fourth there were fireworks, concerts, a banquet for U.S. Ambassador J. Butler Wright, a parade and a National Theatre mass meeting in honor of the U.S. attended by President Laredo Bru and Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Well might Cuba honor Eminent Citizen Roosevelt's Administration who in 1934 signed a reciprocal trade treaty which lowered the duty on Cuban sugar, helped to restore Cuba's market for her main crop...
Moses had a ten-point program for fixing up his part of the world. Woodrow Wilson had 14. Governor La Follette has five and Fulgencio Batista has 20 (see p. 24). Numerically pretty close to the average, therefore, is the eleven-pointer Herbert Hoover has evolved...
...project of Cuba's Army Strongman, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, is his Three-Year Plan, a 20-point New Deal inaugurated last year. Under it he has thus far distributed to indigent farmers well over 300,000 acres of State lands and lands formerly leased to private individuals and companies, constructed some 700 schools where army noncoms act as teachers, restricted the employment of foreigners and imposed price and minimum wage restrictions on the sugar industry. However, the surface of his mass of social, economic-reforms has not been scratched. So extensive are the proposed reforms that cynical oppositionists have...
Cuban police swept over the island last week with a blanket order to round up radicals, "detained" hundreds, for several days. With this as a prelude, Cuba's dominant army "strong man," squat, swarthy Colonel Fulgencio Batista held elections to fill 81 seats in the House, one in the Senate...
Seven months ago Army Chief Colonel Fulgencio Batista launched a social, economic "New Deal." On the one hand he amnestied Tyrant Machado, on the other he decided to make payments on the defaulted bonds to bolster Cuba's credit so he could begin borrowing afresh. Last week he had his figurehead President, Federico Laredo Bru, rubber-stamp through congress a settlement which provides: 1) refunding of $40,000,000 5½% bonds, largely held by the Chase interests, with a 4½% issue; 2) payment of $20,000,000 short-term credit owed the Chase; and 3 ) appointment...