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...competent U. S. correspondents investigated they found no major revolt but a few Gold Shirts taking pot shots at police and Federal troops. After a day of skirmishing three Gold Shirts, one policeman, lay dead, 25 Gold Shirts were jailed. At dusk, Tamaulipas' Governor Marte R. Gómez took the Latin method of relieving tension. Alone, he strolled around the plaza at Matamoros. "It's time for the evening promenade," he purred to the cautious citizens. Soon eligible senoritas and the ardent young men joined in their usual strolls and the crisis was over. "Mexico...
There it was discovered that the assaulter was no ordinary brawler but Manuel Oyon, a onetime Venezuelan judge. The assaulted was General Jorge Garcia, onetime warden of Caracas' infamous Rotunda prison where the late Dictator Juan Vicente ("El Benemerito") Gómez kept Manuel Oyon and many another political prisoner. "He used to torture me!" cried Manuel Oyon. "The mere admission that he served as warden of the Rotunda is sufficient proof," declared his lawyer. While the court tried to decide what to do with Manuel Oyon, who after his release from prison was deported by the present Venezuelan...
...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 which, among...
...business life of Cuba went peacefully on in the sunbright streets and sleepy countryside, at night in the city of Havana the secret conferences of dark-eyed men talking softly and rapidly became longer and subtler and more intense. The Republican Actionist Party of impeached President Gómez, who spent the winter attending exhibition baseball games with ostentatious humility, suddenly spurted with a violent manifesto characterizing Acting-President Laredo Bru as "a decorative figure and a phantom, imprisoned in the palace as a legal fiction," and demanding that the Army stay clear of the elections for the Constituent Assembly...
Much less enthusiastic about Batistism was President GÓmez who said bluntly, "The bill is antidemocratic, invades the scope of the civil authority, and tends to militarize childhood. I shall veto it." This made "The Savior" so angry that even when the National Sugar Mill Owners Association offered to pay the tax without any legislation, he waved their offer a.side, spluttered, "The bill must become...