Word: gerardo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a U. S. newsorgan was snipped or censored in Cuba while "Tyrant" President Gerardo Machado domineered, but last week his more liberal successors found something which even they resolved to suppress. Cubans lounging in sidewalk cafes had scarcely noticed that some of their U. S. visitors were reading an Esquire article entitled "Latins Are Lousy Lovers" when the Government swooped clown, confiscated all current newsstand copies of this masculine equivalent of Vogue and threw into jail luckless Marcial Perez, a partner in the firm which sells Esquire in Cuba...
...eight years before Cubans got sufficiently agitated to chase Tyrant Gerardo Machado off their beautiful island (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). It was nearly two and a half years more before they calmed down sufficiently to hold a regular Presidential election to replace him (TIME, Jan. 20 et ante). Last week, at the end of a breath-taking series of six Provisional Presidents since the flight of Machado, Cuba inaugurated its sixth legally elected President, Miguel Mariano Gómez, who happened to be the son of its second President, General Jose Miguel Gómez.* Small, young (45), determined President...
More than two years after the overthrow of Tyrant Gerardo Machado, Cuba last week went to the polls in boredom, suspicion and disgust, to elect a President, a Congress, provincial Governors and mayors. Cuba had had no election at all for eight years, no election even moderately honest for 20. Most politicos, who preferred their own voices to the people's votes, had made certain that last week's election would prove as little as possible. It was the quietest election in Cuban history, for which U. S. bigwigs in Havana gave much credit to able...
Colonel Mendieta was the fifth President of his troubled country since 1933, when Cuba overthrew her "tyrant" General Gerardo Machado, who now lives in Europe. There was no critical reason why he should resign, but the Cuban political snarl had at last grown too involved and ominous for Colonel Mendieta. With the beauty of phrase which comes readily to Cuban orators, he abruptly declared: "The Cuban people said when they called me to the Presidency that it would be as the nation's savior. Now I shall again be the nation's savior, if I resign. Hence...
Cuban students, whose revolution had just failed, were calling the Government "more brutal and imperialistic" than the tyranny of Gerardo Machado which they overthrew two years ago. But what most enraged them was the fact that the Cuban people are swinging away from them and back to the old-line parties of the early Machado days. And, in snug Paris exile, Machado was saying, "Just as I expected." Meanwhile the Chase National Bank last week submitted to President Mendieta a long argument showing why his Government should resume interest payments on a $60,000,000 Chase-sponsored loan...