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...Goya's famed bullfight scenes, Mariano Ceballos and La Division de Place...
With both sides appealing to Boss Batista to intervene, the Boss was disposed to caution. Cuba's stoutly independent Supreme Court last week ordered the Senate special tribunal to show why it had refused an appeal to onetime President Miguel Mariano Gomez, whom the tribunal impeached last December for balking at Boss Batista's military school program (TIME...
...mouth of Laredo Bru, was tired of keeping 162 Representatives and 36 Senators at a cost of $4,000,000 a year unless they passed some laws to earn their pay. Since the Senate obeyed the Colonel's orders last December and impeached troublesome President Dr. Miguel Mariano Gómez, both houses had been feeling a new sense of power. They had refrained from legislating to argue over such matters as jobs. Now the Government, reported dutiful Señor Laredo Bru, was going to set things moving again by holding elections for its long-deferred Constituent Assembly...
Peasant-Conservative Batista, who has long been set on getting rid of head-in-the-clouds democratic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias, blatantly dragooned the Cuban Senate last week into voting the President out of office. The trumped-up impeachment charge against President Gomez was "interference with legislation.'' though he had done nothing worse than veto Batista's sugar-tax bill. Since this bill had been engineered by Batista from the beginning, the charge of "interference" struck many Cubans as ironical, but with the Army behind Batista the politicians promptly impeached and ousted Gomez...
...ballyhoo Cuba's political serenity, boom Havana tourist trade, Cuba's idealistic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias last autumn hit on the idea of a Christmas Sports Festival. Main events on a week-long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human...