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...summer, wind-bitten Nova Scotian schoonermen had put into Lunenburg and Halifax with fresh fish and frayed tempers. Now that the war was over, big (500 to 1,200-ton) Portuguese and Spanish trawlers were back in numbers on the Quero (from Banquereau) Bank. Bluenose skippers howled that they were trying to run Canadian schooners (80-90 tonners) off the grounds...
...night after Senor Machado announced that he did not choose to resign, normalcy returned. At precisely 1:30 a. m. a bomb exploded at the front door of a minor Machado henchman, Col. José Quero, Chief of the Tax Section of the Cuban Treasury. Nobody was hurt, as usual. The bomb merely blew in Col. Quero's front door, blew his library furniture into a pile of kindling wood, blew out most of the windows in his house. Just a reminder...