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...Debacle. Finance Minister Ramon Beteta had denied repeatedly that devaluation was coming. When the change came, the public was caught flatfooted. Some drew their bank savings and went on buying sprees. The foreign credit manager of one bank arrived at his office late to find careless clerks doling out precious dollars at the old rate. In the Calle Isabel la Catolica, flooded by recent rains, money changers stood shin deep in water, clinking handfuls of gold coins and arguing prices. They offered six and seven pesos for a dollar and readily went higher. Anxious travelers and others who urgently needed...
When Strong Man Fulgencio Batista's candidate lost the presidency to hollow-eyed Ramon Grau San Martin in 1944's free elections, Batista promptly and discreetly took a plane for Miami. Since then, backed by a jumbo-sized bank roll, he has sat out a pleasant exile in some of the New World's toniest suites...
Once, in rehearsal, Toscanini directed his scorn at big-voiced Chilean Tenor Ramon Vinay, who has done the role of Otello at the Met. Said Toscanini: "Haven't you ever been in love? You have to be persuasive and gentle in love-even if she is your wife...
Mexico's Ramon Beteta said that the effort to lower tariffs for highly developed and undeveloped countries "is treating unequals with equality." He explained that great industrialized creditor nations should cut their tariffs and yet allow developing nations to impose protective restrictions...
Thousands turned out for the funeral of Tro, who had been shot in the back trying to save the expectant mother. President Ramon Grau San Martin, under opposition attack for filling high police posts with hotheads, named an Army colonel as supervisor of police...