Word: hevia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havana's cavernous Sports Palace, 600 shouting, sweat-soaked partisans last week acclaimed Carlos Hevia, 52, as the official Auténtico Party's presidential candidate in the June elections. Next week five lesser parties in the pro-government coalition are scheduled to add their endorsement of President Carlos Prío's hand-picked choice for his successor...
...Hevia nomination was President Prío's response to the 1950 by-election setback, when voters fed up with entrenched political gangsterism and corruption upset his control in the city of Havana. Carlos Hevia is that almost unique Cuban man of affairs-a man of such universally acknowledged character as to be virtually above personal attack...