Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen times. The Negro Communist Left and the semi-Fascist ABC had refused to put up candidates, their leaders being either in exile or in mortal fear of Army Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Meanwhile, over a year ago, a black-browed, cigar-sucking little man named Miguel Mariano Gomez began plugging steadily at building himself into Cuba's dark horse. He was the son of Cuba's second President, Jose Miguel Gomez. He had been an insurgent "Liberal" Mayor of Havana opposed to tyrannical "Liberal" Machado. He had a plump, dazzling wife. He proceeded quietly...
...Cubans thought this election would be decisive but the favored candidate remained this week Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez, who, it is expected, will be supported by a Nationalist-Liberal-Republican party coalition and who is seemingly favored by Cuba's military "Strong Man," genial, naïve, back-seat-taking Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who two years ago was a simple sergeant...
...hastily packed suitcase, Expert Dodds hurried last week to the palace of Cuba's Provisional President Carlos Mendieta. Since 1928 Cuba has had six Presidents but no elections. Up to last month President Mendieta's long promised elections were scheduled for Dec. 15. No. 1 candidate was Miguel Mariano Gomez, officially supported by two parties including Mendieta's Nationalists. No. 2 candidate was goateed, onetime President Mario Garcia Menocal. A victory of the Gomez coalition over the Menocalistas depended, however, on its receiving the votes of a rebellious wing of the Liberal Party, whose official nominee...
Last year Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought Mutiny on the Bounty by James Norman Hall & Charles Nordhoff (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). Last spring production started with Charles Laughton for Bligh, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone for sailors, San Miguel Island, 35 miles off Santa Barbara, for Pitcairn Island and a $15,000 barge with $50,000 worth of equipment for the Bounty. As unfortunate as her predecessor, the cinema Bounty last month broke a towrope, drifted out to sea with a watchman on board, remained lost for three days...
Last week off San Miguel Island, a heavy squall struck the Bounty, swept away a water tank support, swamped the barge, spilled 25 technicians into the water. Assistant Director James Havens, in charge of the location unit, described how a cameraman named Glenn Strong drowned in the confusion that followed: "Strong went back to retrieve his camera which was on a superstructure. The superstructure collapsed, carrying him into the water with two others. His companions swam to safety. Strong clung to some timber for a time. But in the excitement, no one saw him go down...