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...cases of presumptive military disability, trim bogus claims off the pension rolls. The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were liberally represented on most boards. ¶ Cuba last week occupied a large part of the President's attention (see p. 15). After the coup d'état he ordered three U. S. destroyers to Cuban waters "to protect the lives and persons of American citizens," announced that his Government had no intention of intervention. ¶ President Roosevelt transferred another career diplomat when he appointed white-crested Charles Stetson Wilson, now Minister to Rumania, to be Minister...
...from War Minister Herrera resignations signed by Sr. Machado and other members of his Cabinet which had the effect of making General Herrera for about 30 minutes the Provisional President. Not acceptable to Ambassador Welles or to the Cuban army officers who had staged the coup d'état, General Herrera waited only for Congress to rush through a bill permitting him to hand the Provisional Presidency over to a "civilian neutral" and retired Cuban diplomat, quiet, scholarly, short-statured Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (pronounced "Sess-pay-dess...
...fortnight Adolf Hitler stung Austria's Chancellor Engelbert ("Millimetter-nich"*) Dollfuss with a 1,000-mark visa charge for Germans entering Austria. Smarting, Dollfuss considered slapping back with a tariff wall against German goods that would have hurt both Germany and Austria. Instead, giving gentle tit for brutal tat, he restored the five-schilling visa charge for Austrians going to Ger- many, forbade any to do so except for urgent business reasons. Then he turned back to the serious business of fighting the Nazi pox within Austria...
Because humbly-born Reza Shah did not inherit his Throne but wrested Persia's Government from weak, sensuous, do-nothing Ahmed Shah by a coup d'état in 1921, TIME will continue to call His Imperial Majesty "dynamic, self-made...
...loyal Chargé d'Affaires Azodi all praise for emphasizing that four years after the coup d'état Persia's Majlis (Parliament) formally deposed Ahmed Shah, formally elevated Reza Shah to the Peacock Throne...