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...prior, Good Neighbor Roosevelt's most obstreperous neighbor, Cuba's Army Chief and Strong Man, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, had dramatically tightened his hold on the island which he now rules. Returning from a long week end in Camagüey Province to his gleaming, refurbished Camp Columbia ten miles outside Havana, Boss Batista met his Capitol lieutenants to hear details of how the lower house of Cuba's 16th Congress was staging a legislative "standup" strike in the corridors outside their chamber. For a full week they had refused to take their seats in number sufficient...
These stirrings gave Havana a high political fever, with rumors of new coalitions circulating hourly. About all that any Cuban politician knew surely was that, let coalitions form where they might, for the moment the undisputed boss of Cuba was husky, brown Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar...
Bosses. For the first time since he was born in a farmer's hut in Oriente Province 36 years ago, full-blooded Fulgencio Batista was without a boss to chafe him. His first boss was a tailor who apprenticed him at the age of 12. Batista now brags that before he quit a year later he could make a suit of clothes himself. Afterward he worked in a grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions...
Good Neighbor. Looming behind and above this flurry of fiscal planning last week, however, was still the three-year-old man-to-man fight for Cuba, Fulgencio Batista v. Sumner Welles. In Cuba, Mr. Welles had hoped to make a record which would crown his achievements in the Dominican Republic and Honduras and bring about his dream of becoming Under Secretary of State. Last week Fulgencio Batista was still a hard brown obstacle to that dream. To boss Boss Batista, Sumner Welles would apparently have to do just what Franklin Roosevelt promised not to do on Pan American Day: actively...
Relaxing from his job of being Cuba's Dictator, Colonel Fulgencio Batista attended a Havana cock fight with a group of friends, including cultural Carlos Mendieta whom Batista made Cuba's President for a while...