Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the old Machado regime dead as carrion, sharp-eyed old politicos began floating home out of exile. First three to arrive and line up their former supporters were Colonel Carlos Mendieta, bearded ex-President Mario Garcia Menocal, leader of the Conservative party, and former Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana. Colonel Mendieta is elderly. General Menocal and Dr. Gomez have many a stench to live down from their previous political careers, are regarded with small enthusiasm by young Cubans. But President de Cespedes' ability to handle his fractious island is still an unknown quantity...
...commission was paid by Cuba to Senor Obregon not as an individual but as the Chase's Havana manager. After deducting expenses, including legal fees of $58,055.07 for Cuban lawyers (Antonio de Bustamente, Hernandez Cartaya, Garcia Montes) the balance of the commission, some $375,000, was distributed among the original underwriters of the loan: Chase National Bank, Chase Securities Corp., Blair & Co. Inc., Equitable Trust Co., Continental Bank of Chicago...
Colombia's Eduardo Santos and Peru's Francisco Garcia Calderon dipped the Imperial ivory gift-pen deep in the Abyssinian inkwell and signed. Cried Senor Santos...
Third kick was a dictatorship. Dictator Terra appointed his own junta of eight, dissolved Congress and sent police to arrest the Administrative nine. Seven were caught. One, Alfredo Garcia Morales, hid in the Argentine Embassy. Baltazar Brum, facing the end of parliamentary order in Uruguay, met police with a revolver in each hand, wounded two detectives and took refuge in the Spanish Legation. Soon Idealist Brum came out of "dishonorable" hiding and died by his own hand on his own doorstep. His wife stoically carried his body inside. In Montevideo, Brum's death hurt Dictator Terra's prestige...
Grove Park lives bearded, socialite ex-President Mario Garcia Menocal, veteran of one unsuccessful revolution against Rooster Machado and still considered the one man able to displace him now-despite the fact that during Menocal's two terms (1913-21) he was accused of almost every crime now charged against President Machado...