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When Colonel Fulgencio Batista decided last summer to make himself the de jure as well as de facto boss of Cuba, he persuaded the politically potent Menocal family to renounce its support of Opposition Candidate Dr. Ramon Juan San Martin and swing crucial Havana his way. In return he got behind dapper, high-living 40-year-old Raul Garcia Menocal y Seva in the city elections, hoisted him from Havana's ballrooms and race courses to the mayoralty. Last week came Raul's induction. Immediately he ran into trouble...
...lumbering, leftish ex-newspaperman named Ferdinand Lundberg decided to give form to his favorite gripe: big, fat capitalists and their de facto control of our de jure Government. Under his microscope went 60 of the fattest with their families, their incomes, their politics, their philanthropies. He wrote an erudite bombshell of questionable accuracy titled America's 60 Families, watched his subjects squirm while Secretary Ickes and then Assistant Attorney General Jackson quoted it with gusto. Within less than a year the families were sprawled under more powerful microscopes as the Temporary National Economic Committee made a study of corporate...
...Inauguration Day a thick drizzle fell on Havana's gold-domed Presidential Palace, but in its Salon of Mirrors Cuba's pomp watched the island's de facto boss become its de jure leader. Outside, wet thousands gathered in Misiones Park, with bands blaring, cheered a balcony appearance by the newly sworn President. Same day, President Batista issued a manifesto to the press:"It is true that the revolutionary cycle has ended. I wish to be good and to be loved by my people. I have no triumph. It is an ideal that has triumphed-the ideal...
...took exactly eight minutes. Clerk of the Court Greffier Jardel read the oath: "Do you swear honestly and faithfully to fulfill your duties, to guard religiously the secrets of the deliberations, and to act throughout as a worthy and loyal magistrate?" One after another the seven justices said: "Je jure." Then Chief Justice Caous adjourned the court. The long and painstaking inquiry into the responsibility for France's defeat was scheduled to begin this week...
...Reorganization bill had passed, Harry Hopkins would have become de jure what he is de facto-an important member of the President's Cabinet. He may yet do so next session. If and when a new Department of Welfare is created, it will doubtless be staffed by Harry Hopkins' present crew headed by idealistic Chief Deputy Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams who also is chief of the National Youth Administration. As a new Department of the Government, WPA would come in full-fledged and ramified to a degree rivaling even what Herbert Hoover made of Commerce, what lazy thinking...