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...tweedledum to Don Jose Callava's tweedledee in Florida's ridiculous prestige brawl of 1820? When these samples, with countless of their kind are added to the confused problems of Jackson's birthplace, his marriage, his treatment of the Creeks, et al., it is easy to understand why Parton, Sumner, and Bassett failed to do their subject justice, as Mr. James modestly suggests...
...President Roosevelt decided to send Assistant Secretary of State Jefferson Caffery to negotiate the U.S.-Cuban commercial treaty. Ambassador Sumner Welles will return to Washington about Sept...
Emphatically President Machado was still Dictator. Only in the person of crisp, calm, young U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles did terrified Cubans see hope of reviving their paralyzed capital. President Roosevelt had sent Mr. Welles to Havana to "mediate" when Machado tyranny became too obvious (TIME, May 15). He was known to be conferring with members of all parties. Army officers had sought...
...Provisional President went into action not by appointing a Cabinet, which he delayed, but by receiving Mediator Sumner Welles at 11:30 a. m. and twice thereafter during the day. Disorder still reigned in Havana with soldiers and armed members of the A B C (secret-anti-Machado organization) hunting members of the Porra from house to house, killing them brutally when found. In some instances "mercy" was shown, as to Porrista Carlos Souto: he begged and was permitted to shoot himself. Four police officers were seized, lodged in the Central Police Station. ABC members gave them each a pistol...
...whole cucumber-shaped island of Cuba seethed with strikes and street fights this week. President Gerardo Machado, who fortnight ago restored Constitutional guarantees (suspended since 1930) to facilitate the mediation of U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles between the Government and oppositionists (TIME, June rushed home from a fishing trip to proclaim: "I hereby declare Cuba in a state of intense agitation! The military may assist in preserving order in whatever manner necessary." By this time Havana was becoming slowly paralyzed by the growth of a series of strikes which began last week among bus drivers, spread to waterfront workers, slaughterhouse...