Word: mendieta
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...tore his beard indignantly. Dr. Dodds thereupon drew up the final electoral code (TIME, Dec. 16). New factor was that Cuba's pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the responsibility of either holding or postponing the election, provisional President Carlos Mendieta resigned his job to his meek Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vina-gres (TIME, Dec. 23). Of all the dozen "sectors" and their might-have-been candidates who once shrilled for Cuba's attention, only Gomez and Menocal last week actually ran for President. As the ballots...
...Cuban politics a zero hour came last week when opponents of provisional President Carlos Mendieta hired suburban Havana radio station CMQ to criticize the new electoral plan devised by Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds (TIME, Dec. 16) and radio station COCO announced a speech in praise of the plan to be made by the Chief Executive. Day of the speeches the Communications Department ordered CMQ to cancel its anti-Dodds speech...
Three hours before it was time for the Mendieta speech over COCO 16 men with submachine guns and pistols shot the radio tubes and equipment of station CMQ to blazes for a $40,000 loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...
...Colonel Mendieta was the fifth President of his troubled country since 1933, when Cuba overthrew her "tyrant" General Gerardo Machado, who now lives in Europe. There was no critical reason why he should resign, but the Cuban political snarl had at last grown too involved and ominous for Colonel Mendieta. With the beauty of phrase which comes readily to Cuban orators, he abruptly declared: "The Cuban people said when they called me to the Presidency that it would be as the nation's savior. Now I shall again be the nation's savior, if I resign. Hence...
...nominee of their party. Thus the rebellious Liberal wing could not join the Gomez coalition and foxy old Menocal would probably win. With the coalition threatening to withdraw from the election if the ruling stood, and the Menocalistas threatening to withdraw if the ruling was disregarded, President Mendieta again postponed the election, called in Dr. Dodds...