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...Rockefeller Jr. and president of Chase National Bank (world's largest). And with good cause. Banker Aldrich had read in TIME, May 15: ". . . Of Chase's $30,000,000 first loan [to Cuba], $2,000,000 went into commissions-$500,000 to 'Wood Louse' Obregon" (Jose Emilio Obregon, son-in-law of Cuba's President Machado...
...Dictator Machado's murders. A few facts are undisputed. In 1924 horn-rimmed Gerardo Machado y Morales was an officer of the Santa Clara subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, to whom he had sold his own power company a few months earlier. His son-in-law, Jose Emilio Obregon. sometimes called the "Wood Louse" because of his handling of shiploads of lumber donated to Cuba by the American Red Cross after the 1926 hurricane, was manager of Chase National Bank's Havana branch (1927-31). The Chase Bank first loaned the Machado Government $30,000,000, paid...
...fortnight past has been painful to Christian ears. Repeatedly the Savior's Holy Mother was termed by Senators and Representatives "the so-called Virgin Mary." Last week the Congress added insult to injury by voting unanimously to change the names of two Mexico City suburbs. San Angel became Obregon, Congress substituting for the "Holy Angel" one-armed General Alvaro Obregon, famed champion of the Revolution and one of the most popular presidents Mexico has ever had, who was assassinated in San Angel by a religious fanatic in 1928. The suburb Guadalupe-Hidalgo (a double-barreled name recalling both...
President Machado hops into his tub at 4:30 each morning. But his son-in-law, Senor Emilio Obregon, who has the room and the bathroom just above, is less spry. So is his wife. So are their children. At 4:30 a. m. on the fatal morning last week, the Obregon family were sound asleep in their beds when the bomb went off in their bathroom. Potent, the explosion tore through the bathroom wall, wrecked Son- in-Law Obregon's expensive plate-glass shower bath, hurled some of the bits of glass with such terrific force...
Died. Cenobia Obregon, 66, sister of onetime Mexican President Alvaro Obregon (assassinated 1928); at Guadalajara...