Word: gerardo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same day it was learned that, come Jan. 16, the President intended to return the call made upon him last April by President Gerardo Machado of Cuba by attending the opening session of the sixth international conference of American states in Havana. Should he do so, it-would be only the second time that a U. S. President had left U. S. soil on a diplomatic mission...
...will be taken out in 1929, which many good Republicans trust will remain undisturbed till 1933. The object is the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Cespedes,* famed among Cubans as the Victoria Cross is famed among British, the Iron Cross among Germans. President Gerardo Machado of Cuba, lately a presidential guest (TIME, May 2), wished to bestow the cross upon President Coolidge, but found that the President could wear no foreign decoration while U. S. Chief Executive. The cross was sent to the Department of State, to be kept in trust until President Coolidge...
...Callers upon the President were: President Gerardo Machado of Cuba (see col. 3); Charles Beecher Warren, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who in return dined President and Mrs. Coolidge on their yacht Lyndonia; Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, who came for a stay of several weeks; Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Italian air ace, to whom Mr. Coolidge expressed his regrets over the recent burning of Signer de Pinedo's plane (TIME, April 18); J. Ramsay Macdonald, onetime British premier, who was accompanied by his daughter Ishbel...
Many a square foot of U. S. soil last week became, by international courtesy, territory of the Cuban republic. But only momentarily; for Gerardo Machado, President of Cuba, moved expeditely from Havana to visit President Coolidge. A Cuban law prohibits the Cuban President from leaving Cuba. Therefore, President Machado, never without a Cuban flag in his pocket, annexed every spot of U. S. soil for the moment during which he passed over it or paused upon it. He could not be accused of leaving Cuba. He took Cuba with him. He even annexed for Cuba, temporarily, a spot...
President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba and President Jose Serrato of Uruguay maintained an air of Augustan calm last week while their Foreign Ministers quarreled over a sneer. Senor Alfredo Guani, Uruguayan representative in the Assembly of the League of Nations, allegedly launched the sneer by remarking while at Geneva last fall: "Cuba is tied to the U. S. by her Permanent Treaty."* This remark, unheeded by the rest of the world, has been bandied for months by the Cuban and Uruguayan press until, last week, Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Uruguay, alleging that, "the Cuban national honor...