Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hurricane and revolt again struck Cuba last week. Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes had left Havana for Sagua la Grande in north central Cuba to survey the storm damage and relief measures (see p. 18). Locum tenens at Havana was Col. Horacio' Ferrer, onetime Army surgeon and oculist who last month refused the Army's nomination as Provi- sional President. Early in the week, to deal with the restless Army, President de Cespedes made Col. Ferrer Secretary of War. Secretary Ferrer promptly barked : "The natural orgy that followed Machado's overthrow is over. The troops henceforth...
...evening Sergeant Fulgencio Batista and other enlisted men of Camp Columbia, Army post where the revolution against the Machado regime originated, called upon their officers, politely asked some to submit to arrest, others to go to their homes. The officers complied. Sergeant Batista became "chief of staff" of a revolt which swiftly spread to Army outposts, to the Navy, to the rural guards. Under the full moon enlisted men rushed machine guns to significant Havana corners. Civilian Havana slept. No one was known to have been killed as immediate result of the new, non-commissioned officers' revolt...
...again to be revised this year, they were fuller than ever before of political dynamite. Battered by Depression, Canada was ripe for change. Her prairie provinces, after years of low grain prices and inspired by the New Deal across the border, were ready for political revolt. The C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, nicknamed "Cocofed"), a radical organization not unlike the U.S. Farmer-Labor Party, was preparing to raise hob. Canada's banks had stood unharmed through the Depression, but the West was bitter against them for not lending more money at lower rates. Bank scandals in the U.S. prompted Canadians...
Little Dollfuss' main job today is to stop the dropping of Nazi leaflets from German airplanes upon Austria, to silence Hitlerite radio appeals to Austrians, and generally to prevent Chancellor Adolf Hitler & henchmen from fomenting a Nazi revolt in the Austrian Republic...
...popular in Cuba because his father, also Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, headed a brief revolutionary regime in 1868 (30 years before the U. S. helped Cuba to win independence from Spain) and has been called "the Cuban George Washington." His family were forced to flee Cuba after the revolt and Dr. Cespedes was born in New York just 62 years ago last week. Popular in Washington from 1914 to 1922 as Minister of Cuba, he knew Franklin Delano Roosevelt well as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In 1925 during President Machado's first (and happier) term, Dr. Cespedes served...