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Built by ex-Dictator General Gerardo Machado, Cuba's Huey Long, the $20 million Capitolio has been called a monument to graft. The yellow diamond, en circled by gold from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
...policy. Said full-blooded Chief Cachirere to part-Indian General Rondon: "Old Father, I come to tell you that a white man bought 2,986 kilograms of quartz crystal from the Javaes Indians and did not pay for it. The man is Lauro Melo and he lives at Rua Machado de Assis...
...Latin Americans, who felt that their underdeveloped countries should receive loans rather than make them, wanted to make only nominal subscriptions to the Bank. But under the leadership of able young Luis Machado (personal representative of Cuba's President-elect Grau) they finally boosted their subscription to 70% of the amount asked...
...hungry living as a laborer in the cane fields, on the docks and railroads. He was a jack-of-all-trades: tailor, mechanic, charcoal vender, fruit peddler, and finally an Army stenographer. In the Army he got around, became a staff sergeant with remarkably wide connections. When Gerardo Machado's hated dictatorship rotted away in 1933, Sergeant Batista, then 32, astounded the Western Hemisphere by taking over the Army and the Government...
Died. Dr. Jose Ignacio de Rivero y Alonso ("Pepin"), 49, editor and publisher of Cuba's oldest (1832) and most famous newspaper, the Havana Diario de la Marina; after long illness; in Vibora, Cuba. Somber, handsome Rivero, although a reactionary himself, in 1930 bitterly criticized the bloody-reactionary Machado regime, dodged its conspiracy and sedition charges by visiting the U.S. In 1934 he was machine-gunned by would-be assassins for forming the nationalistic afirmación Nacional party. In 1936 he blasted the Spanish loyalists, in 1941 was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize in journalism by Columbia...