Word: gerardo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel will not be entirely without influence in the Army, even though he no longer belongs to it, was suggested by the choice of his successor. Jose Pedraza was also a sergeant when Sergeant Batista headed the non-commissioned officers' revolt which ended the rule of onetime President Gerardo Machado. Chief of Police of Havana and Military Governor of Havana Province as well, Colonel Pedraza was until last week Inspector General of the Cuban Army under Colonel Batista...
...sculpture, a torqued Figure (see cut, p. 36) by handsome, 27-year-old Rita Longa. Significantly enough, Rita Longa is chief of the Section of Teaching and Art Appreciation in the Department of Culture under the Cuban Ministry of Education. This department was created after the overthrow of President Gerardo ("Butcher") Machado in 1933 and is regarded by Cuban artists as a great national victory for the liberal and lively enjoyment...
Died. General Gerardo Machado y Morales, 67, onetime (1924-33) President and terroristic Dictator of Cuba, who shot dissenters in the back or fed them to sharks, and whose own officers drove him from Cuba in 1933; of abdominal cancer; in Miami Beach...
Dictator. Franklin Roosevelt five years ago sent aristocratic Ambassador Sumner Welles to pluck Cuba from under the heel of bloody President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado. That chunky brown soldier, Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, organized a revolt against Ambassador Welles's dummy President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, made himself Cuba's army chief and proceeded to set up and knock down presidents of his own in a way that has made Dictator Machado look almost constitutional...
...Cuba's great Cespedes (1819-74) promulgated the island's first Declaration of Independence in 1868, proclaimed an underground Republic which Spain could not stamp out for ten years. His son & namesake was Provisional President for 25 days after the exit of Gerardo Machado...