Word: socarr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parade of workers and government employees, who had been given the afternoon off, wound its way through downtown Havana last week, now & then raising a polite shout: "Empréstito, si! [The loan, yes!]." They were signifying their well-organized approval of President Prío Socarrás' proposal to borrow up to $200 million from U.S. banks for public works and industrial development...
...should President Carlos Prío Socarrás have to borrow $100 million in the U.S. when there was plenty of money in Cuba? It was a question his enemies were bound to ask as soon as they heard about his proposed First Boston Corp. 3⅞% loan for public works (TIME...
...Guatemala," he growled. Tacho had heard that Arevalo was making jokes: "Let him talk about sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...
...grand salon of Havana's domed presidential palace was packed to its mirrored walls with sweating, frock-coated diplomats and Cuban officials. From the plaza outside rose the roar of crowds, the snip-snap of firecrackers. Cannon boomed in salute. Carlos Prío Socarrás, 45, was being sworn in as Cuba's 17th President. With a warm abrazo, 61-year-old Professor-President Ramón Grau San Martin turned over his office to one of his favorite pupils, a student leader in the 1933 revolution that first raised Grau to the presidency...
CUBA'S PERIPATETIC PRESIDENT-ELECT Carlos Prío Socarrás, who had already received the full treatment in Mexico (TIME, Aug. 9) and who plans to visit the U.S. after his inauguration in November, turned up in Guatemala City. He and Guatemala's President Juan José Arévalo found a mutual bond in their distaste for the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo and Nicaragua's Anastasio