Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rubens soon proved his usefulness to the Cuban exiles as a lawyer and was made General Counsel and utility man to the "Cuban Junta." In 1895 Gómez and Marí'i landed in Cuba for the final struggle. Martí was soon killed in a skirmish, but Gómez joined forces with Macéo and spread revolt over the whole island. Meantime the Junta in the U. S. had the job of keeping the Cuban "army" supplied with guns and ammunition. Rubens became an expert organizer of filibustering expedi tions, an equally expert defense lawyer for arrested...
...Bangkok last week a Committee of 15 about which nobody seemed to know anything except that "the Cabinet is responsible to it," according to Premier Monophkarana. Foreign correspondents, groping for familiar words in which to state so peculiar a situation, decided that the Committee of 15 is a "junta" or "dictature." His Majesty, long a public advocate of popular suffrage, welcomed rumors that the vote had been given to Siamese women last week, though by whom and for what did not appear. A theory grew that the original 70 Senators who simply took their seats will be joined...
Before dawn General Moreno. Col. Bravo and the rest of the Army officers had called upon their good friend Don Carlos Davila to assume the Presidency of a "purely civilian junta" which he prompt...
Military members of the regime were soon blamed for forcing Don Carlos out. These included General Arturo Puga, president of the Junta which was formed at the same time as the new Cabinet, and Defense Minister Colonel Marmaduke Grove. The sudden "illness" of General Puga was invoked as an excuse for not announcing Don Carlos' resignation. Taking the standoffish attitude of a soldier who thinks civil matters should be left to civilians, Col. Marmaduke Grove said: "I declare emphatically the firm determination of the Army & Navy not to mix in politics but to continue fulfillment of their duty...
...these things might happen, but meanwhile the Junta appointed a successor to Don Carlos: Minister of the Interior Rolando Merino. General Puga arose from his sick bed. Senor Davila's mild methods of socialization, it was said, were the cause of his fall, but the Junta announced its regime would receive his support. Only new indication of policy was that the Government would delay converting the Banco Central into a State institution. It was reported that Aurelio Munez Morgado, strongly antagonistic to "Co-sach," would supervise Chile's nitrate industry. But Chile's Government late last week...