Word: semana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ramon Grau San Martin y Madrid, 49, able Havana surgeon, professor of anatomy at Havana University. A bachelor, he has the calm of a surgeon, the detached idealism of a professor. The other was Sergio Carbo, tall, black-haired, volatile editor of the radical weekly La Semana, which Machado once suppressed "for pornography." The crowd liked Carbo's strong, graceful speaking manner, liked to recall that he had helped lead the unsuccessful Gibara revolt against Machado in 1931. The other three commissioners were a retired banker and ABC member, spectacled Porfirio Franco; Lawyer Jose Miguel Irizarri, and the professor...