Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them elbowed for the leadership. One was Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin y Madrid, 49, able Havana surgeon, professor of anatomy at Havana University. A bachelor, he has the calm of a surgeon, the detached idealism of a professor. The other was Sergio Carbo, tall, black-haired, volatile editor of the radical weekly La Semana, which Machado once suppressed "for pornography." The crowd liked Carbo's strong, graceful speaking manner, liked to recall that he had helped lead the unsuccessful Gibara revolt against Machado in 1931. The other three commissioners were a retired banker and ABC member, spectacled Porfirio...
...obligations of the Republic." They declared all the laws on the books still in force until voided by their Junta's unanimous decree. To placate everybody, they promised to turn over the government to "the Constituent Assembly, which is to be called.'' But Commissioner Grau San Martin (pronounced "Grou Sahn Marteen") explained quietly that, before an election could be held, a new census would be needed to clean up the election rolls. To the sugar-workers of the interior, he added that the Junta "has no anti-agrarian tendencies." From the Palace balcony, Commissioner Carbo roared...
...Saturday night the Junta reluctantly met to elect a Provisional President. Soon after midnight it settled on Commissioner Grau San Martin. At noon next day, all in white, he stepped out on the second floor balcony of the Palace. With him was his only important non-Junta supporter, Miguel Mariano Gomez, head of the Marianista faction. Absent was the entire diplomatic corps. President Grau San Martin swore a simple oath "to comply with all parts of the revolutionary program already decided upon and to respect all interests already established." But this show was no great success. Only...
...Cuban sovereignty.'' But when the U. S. S. Indianapolis carried U. S. Secretary of the Navy Swanson into Havana Harbor, an unknown Cuban fired a pistol at it. And last week the great, grey battleship Mississippi was steaming slowly back & forth off Morro Castle. President Grau San Martin changed the new government's tune. The streets suddenly blossomed with banners: "Down With Yanqui Imperialism!" Col. Batista said: "I will say only that we are now under the Cuban flag...
...somewhat lonely lump in Cuba's pot of ajiaco criollo, President Grau San Martin began to pick a Cabinet. He put in a customs house man, Jose Barquin, as Secretary of the Treasury; an obscure doctor, Antonio Guiteras, as Secretary of the Interior; the son of the famed discoverer of the yellow fever mosquito, Dr. Carlos J. Finlay as Secretary of Sanitation and Public Instruction; a rich architect and engineer, Eduardo J. Chibas, who was a de Cespedes man, as Secretary of Public Works. Meanwhile last week the rest of the hash was still boiling...