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Word: hoy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radio Mambi started carrying, at 15-minute intervals, pleas for loyal Cubans to contribute their centavos to buy a huge bucket for Dubois to soak his head in. Anti-Dubois signs appeared on shop fronts on the Prado, Havana's main street. The press, especially the Communist daily Hoy, began denouncing Jules Dubois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I'll Be Back | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...daily Hoy is distributed free at army camps. At Camp Libertad near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Toward Dictatorship | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Communist Party Boss Bias Roca blasted the sugar workers in the Red newspaper Hoy for "brutally antidemocratic methods." The sugar workers answered Bias Roca by voting to censure Hoy for its "distorted, calumnious and counterrevolutionary reports." Shouts of "Burn Hoy !" rang through the hall, and a cordon of cops had to be sent to protect its plant for 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Red Setback | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...through the revolution, abruptly shifted its news line with a 1,400-word story on growing Communist influence in the Castro regime. In pursuit of "revolutionary justice," noted the Times, "it has become customary to arrest members of the Batista armed forces, publish their pictures in the newspapers, including Hoy, the Communist organ-asking if anyone has an accusation against these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Humanist Abroad | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Communist Party, which got back into business the day Batista fell, is today at the peak of its influence. Its 24,000 members form the only active political party on the island. Card carriers or sympathizers in key civilian spots include: Carlos Franqui, former proofreader on the Red daily Hoy and now editor of Castro's paper La Revolution (circ. 80,000); David Salvador, chief of the labor federation; Francisco Alonso, head of the National Fine Arts Commission; Vicentina Antuña, chief of the National Institute of Culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The First 100 Days | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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