Word: gerardo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Gerardo Machado of Cuba extended formal de jure recognition, last week, to the new Chinese Nationalist (See p. 18) Government, to which the U. S. recently accorded semi-formal de facto recognition (TIME...
This dangerous and explosive conflict of ideals and facts hung tense in the warm air of La Habana, last week, as the Conference assembled and was formally opened by the President of Cuba, General Gerardo Machado. After him spoke the President of the United States, who made the very best of a difficult situation by championing Fraternity and omitting specific reference to Intervention. Therefore, some regretted that the U. S. Navy Department found it necessary to send a huge bombing plane soaring in non-stop flight from Miami, Florida, directly over La Habana and on to assist U. S. Marines...
...Calvin Coolidge spoke, joined in the general applause. Latin correspondents sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
...Commander-in-Chief as it was. Besides, the party was to include Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Kellogg, Mrs. Wilbur. It seemed likely that President & Mrs. Coolidge would maintain only a statutory residence on the Texas in Havana; that they would spend two nights (Jan. 15 & 16) as President Gerardo Machado's guests on the $2,000,000 freshly redecorated third floor of the Cuban Presidential Palace...
Sounding off with this truly transcendental overstatement, President Gerardo Machado of Cuba strove, last week, with titanic hospitality to welcome the delegates of 21 American nations who were in process of convening at his Capital...