Word: fulgencio
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...advertising each Sunday while the Herald Tribune made a fractional gain. Ordinarily such a record calls for prolonged professional crowing, but the Herald Tribune has been in no mood to crow since Sunday, November 21, when the paper carried as "Section XII" a 40-page glorification of Cuban Boss Fulgencio Batista's illiberal regime...
...colleagues have been staying away from the Senate Chamber to forestall a quorum, force him to resign (TIME, May 31). Last week after considerable backtracking, President Illas did resign and the Senate went back to work. Elected as his successor, on the potent recommendation of Army Boss Fulgencio Batista, was Liberal Senator Lucilo de la Pena. Promptly Colonel Batista sent his mouthpiece President Federico Laredo Bru to Congress with a whopping $78,856,000 budget, $21,000,000 of which is reserved for Boss Batista's Army...
Ever since his lieutenants projected the biggest legislative program in Cuba's history, swart Army Boss Colonel Fulgencio Batista has been trying to keep Cuba's Congress and Senate sitting in their chairs long enough to do something about it. Last month the Congress staged a stand-up strike over patronage, had to be bullied and cajoled back into the White Capitol. Last week Cuba's 36 Senators had stopped work to squabble in heated Cuban fashion over the strange behavior of Senate President Arturo Illas Hourruitinier...
Married. Amalie Baruch, 28, niece of Bernard Mannes Baruch; and Polan Banks, 32, Manhattan writer; in Havana's National Hotel. Best man was Cuba's swart little Boss, Colonel Fulgencio Batista...
Died. Major Ulciseno Franco Granero, 56, chief of Cuban President Federico Laredo Bru's aides; of cancer of the stomach; in Havana. He was one of the army sergeants who revolted in 1933 against Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes under his close friend Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who made him chief of the Cuban national police...