Word: havana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private dinner in Havana Mr. Caffery saw President Grau's inquisitive, narrow face, Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista's flat, boisterous visage. Warily the three drew together. Next night Mr. Caffery went to the Palace for dinner. He told newshawks afterward that neither he nor President Grau had mentioned U. S. recognition. When President Roosevelt's non-intervention speech was published several days later, Generalissimo Batista tried his hand at a little fulsome diplomacy: "I always knew Roosevelt's policy was based on the solid, ample force of the great, free American people, which respects the rights...
...first two races of the day Jockey Westrope's mounts had finished in the ruck. Now, up on Out Bound, he was again wearing the silks of Mrs. A. R. Smith, the owner for whom he had ridden his first victory of the year at Havana last January. Away fast from the barrier, Jockey Westrope lifted Out Bound into the lead, coaxed him along in a squeaky treble, won by five lengths. Grinning broadly at the crowd's cheers, Jockey Westrope mounted Gallop Along for the fifth race, booted him in for No. 301. He finished the year...
...American Conference at Montevideo (see p. 12), the Cuban Government denounced Ambassador Welles for "intrigue" against President Grau San Martin. In Havana, despite the traditional close-mouthed clannishness of diplomats, Mr. Welles was also denounced by Dr. Fernandez y Medina, the Uruguayan Minister to Cuba. For the past month Dr. Fernandez has been negotiating among Cuban politicians with an aim similar to that usually ascribed to Mr. Welles, namely, to obtain by peaceful persuasion the resignation of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin as President and the formation of a coalition government which would hold a fair Cuban election...
...advice, apparently, was to abstain from pressing President Grau too brusquely to resign. The pressure, according to Havana correspondents, was exerted by Senor Dorta Duque, "a close friend of Mr. Welles." When the Ambassador denied, just before he left Havana, that he had acted in any other role than that of "friendly observer," Uruguay's Dr. Fernandez said: "A rupture was produced by persons who represented themselves as connected with Mr. Welles...
This week the Cuban "mess"' boiled up as Mr. Caffery neared Havana. Mobsters friendly to the government sacked, looted and burned the opposition newsorgan El Pats ("The Fatherland' ). Dr. Grau defiantly announced that he will remain Provisional President until May 20, 1934, will then hand his resignation to a Cuban Constituent Assembly elected under his rule. At this declaration bombs burst in air all over Havana. The rattle of rifle fire was heard through the night. But the morrow brought Mr. Caffery's steamer and sufficient calm for several hundred Cubans and U. S. citizens to stage...