Word: senores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improving my work." Few hours later the ballroom squabblers picked as Cuba's new President a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, smart, trim Carlos He via who had been Secretary of Agriculture under President Grau. Whether or not Cubans will accept an "Annapolis President," Senor Hevia's choice caused eyebrows to lift throughout Latin America, created an unfortunate im pression that Mr. Caffery is Cuba's puppeteer. He was said to be displeased with the Annapolis graduate, considering him too radical despite the U. S. discipline...
...must resign. In order to accomplish this, at his instigation the employees of the Cuban utilities trust went on strike and the government was forced to take over the company; yesterday morning all employees in the departments of Communications, Interior, Justice, Public Works, Instruction, and Health went on strike. Senor Guiteras then retired into his stronghold in the provinces. With the gauntlet thus thrown down to them, the conservatives were forced to take vigorous action. Hevia was removed from office and the strong man of the Nationalist party, Colonel Mendieta, was put into the presidency, while Batista concentrated his troops...
There is not much question as to whether or not the United States will support either side or as to which side that will be. As was pointed out in this column several days ago. Mr. Roosevelt will be put in an impossible position if the Revolutionary party of Senor Guiteras is allowed to carry out its aims, chief among which is the confiscation of foreign property. The only possible solution is to prevent the Revolutionary party from winning in the civil war which will probably follow the present crisis. Nothing, of course, could be more helpful to the conservatives...
...advice, apparently, was to abstain from pressing President Grau too brusquely to resign. The pressure, according to Havana correspondents, was exerted by Senor Dorta Duque, "a close friend of Mr. Welles." When the Ambassador denied, just before he left Havana, that he had acted in any other role than that of "friendly observer," Uruguay's Dr. Fernandez said: "A rupture was produced by persons who represented themselves as connected with Mr. Welles...
...banquet had been tendered by massive President Dr. Gabriel Terra of Uruguay to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the nine other foreign ministers of American countries at the Conference. To seat the 200 statesman-guests, each jealous of his rank, was the ticklish job of Senor Carlos de Yeregui, mincing-mannered Uruguayan Chef de Protocols. In plenty of time before the banquet Senor Yeregui called his limousine, set out from his office with the 200 precious place cards and the indispensable seating list. Chuckling, Montevideo's merry Communists stopped Senor Yeregui's car, forced his chauffeur...