Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extraordinary story of the Garssons was far from complete. Murray Garsson, resting in Havana, would add nothing to it other than sobbing cries of "unfairness . . . persecution." Henry Garsson, busy in Chicago, held hard to his constitutional rights against testifying. Andy May, back in his old Kentucky home, was reportedly a very sick man. To most U.S. citizens it was not so amazing that one high-placed man had engaged in deep connivance with the Garssons. The extraordinary thing about the unsavory mess was the fact that so many high-placed Army officers and Administration leaders had so easily fallen into...
Remington and associated Hearstlings improved their Cuban idleness with one of the decade's most lurid yarns: the story of how three young Cuban women were stripped and searched by Spanish police aboard a U.S. steamship in Havana harbor. Remington did the revealing illustration. It was a scoop until the rival Pulitzer press made it equally famous as a hoax...
Died. Federico Laredo Bru, 71, one-time (1936-40) frontman President of Cuba for his boss and successor, Colonel Fulgencio Batista; in Havana...
...election day last week was orderly, the polling apparently honest. The result was a smashing victory for President Ramón Grau San Martín's left-wing regime, his Auténtico Party and Communist supporters. Grau's man, Manuel Fernandez Supervielle, won Havana's mayorship, the island's No. 2 political job. Most of the island's 125 new mayors would also be Grau men. Apparently enough Grau legislative candidates won to give the President, for the first time, a majority in Congress...
...Solid Havana businessmen who lunch in the highceilinged, masculine La Florida, sugar millers, newly capped Manuel Cardinal Arteaña and the Catholic Church were notably unhappy this week. Ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, who had waited, vampirelike, in Florida for signs of Grau disintegration, sighed in disappointment...