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...Blame. Their leaders were not so buoyant. Dominican General Juan Rodriguez García, who had put $400,000 of his own money in the venture, walked bent and glum between his guards. Hard-boiled Rolando Masferrer, one of his Cuban lieutenants, who had not wanted to turn back even under Cuban Navy guns, was asked to say a few words for the radio. He grabbed the mike, cursed Cuban Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera as a traitor. When told to mind his words, he slugged the announcer with the mike. Angel Morales, chief...
Uncle Tim got a letter from a village in the interior, asking that Uncle Tim admonish little José García for always picking his nose, putting the pickies on the furniture and upsetting his mamacita and papacito. "José," wheedled Uncle Tim on the radio, "that is a terrible habit. People won't like you if you keep...
Mayor Raul García Menocal y Seva of Havana was welcomed to Washington, but nobody could find the customary key-to-the-city to give to him. Discovery: the stock of keys (brass) had been exhausted, and priorities had delayed replacements...
...fluent French García Oliver said: 'Our position is exactly opposite to that of the Bolsheviki in November 1917. They seized power with a program of social revolution which knew no limits. Power was thrust on us, but we have no such program...
...entrances to the building were patrols of militia with rifles and pistols and in the anteroom of García Oliver's office there was a group of youngsters armed to the teeth...