Word: ramone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem to realize that I am a personal friend of the President of the United States," was the reputed parting shot of Ambassador Sumner Welles to President Ramon Grau of Cuba before Mr. Welles returned to Washington (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week President Roosevelt recognized the five-day-old Cuban Government of the Island's new President that shrewd old politico Colonel Carlos Mendieta put in by a coup d'etat (TIME, Jan. 29). Straightway the Colonel cabled to Mr. Welles, now Assistant Secretary of State in Washington: "I am particularly grateful to Your Excellency . . . for your noble...
With the calm of a great surgeon, which he is, President Dr. Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen...
With few friends and little cash, Cuba's President Ramon Grau considered it more important to pay his Army last week than to send to the U. S. $3,950,000 due in interest and arrears on public works loans contracted by deposed Dictator Machado. Bluntly Cuban Secretary of the Treasury Colonel Manuel Despaigne announced that Cuba would default on these obligations "until such time as the whole situation can be thoroughly discussed ... to determine which part if any [of the obligations] is legal." He declared that the $62,000,000 principal of the loans was secured by special...
...diplomats, Mr. Welles was also denounced by Dr. Fernandez y Medina, the Uruguayan Minister to Cuba. For the past month Dr. Fernandez has been negotiating among Cuban politicians with an aim similar to that usually ascribed to Mr. Welles, namely, to obtain by peaceful persuasion the resignation of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin as President and the formation of a coalition government which would hold a fair Cuban election...
President Ramon Grau's Government was shaking last week with symptoms much like those that broke out in the closing days of hated tyrant Machado's regime. Detonating bombs boomed through the land, railroad tracks were being blown up, soldiers were shooting striking workers. Finally the National Labor Confederation called a great general strike throughout Cuba, to last two days in Havana, three days in the interior, with the possibility of indefinite extension. Admitting his Government's shakiness, President Grau tried to pass the blame for Cuba's woes to President Roosevelt. Groused he, "Nonrecognition...