Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Same day the President called all the Latin American diplomats to his office, told them that he thought the Cuban Government of President Mendieta was ripe for recognition, that he intended to recognize Cuba the next day (see p. 23). The diplomats were delighted at such unusual courtesy. After reaching home Ambassador Trucco of Chile and Minister Lozano of Colombia telephoned friendly diplomats to find out what the President had said, inasmuch as they understood no English...
...seem to realize that I am a personal friend of the President of the United States," was the reputed parting shot of Ambassador Sumner Welles to President Ramon Grau of Cuba before Mr. Welles returned to Washington (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week President Roosevelt recognized the five-day-old Cuban Government of the Island's new President that shrewd old politico Colonel Carlos Mendieta put in by a coup d'etat (TIME, Jan. 29). Straightway the Colonel cabled to Mr. Welles, now Assistant Secretary of State in Washington: "I am particularly grateful to Your Excellency . . . for your noble...
...during my four months as President is easily explained. The whole trouble was that I didn't pay interest on the Cuban debt to the Chase National Bank of New York City, my reason being that I considered theirs an illegal contract made by the [ousted] Tyrant [of Cuba] Machado" (TIME...
...Into Cuba's new Cabinet beaming President Mendieta drafted as Secretary of the Treasury a onetime lawyer for the National City Bank, Senor Joaquin Martinez Saenz. From Havana the Republican New York Herald Tribune's alert Tom Pettey cabled...
...Cuba had a fresh President, that grand old man of the old line politicos, Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. Exhausted by his all-night job, Batista was still sound asleep that noon when President Mendieta pushed through a cheering, laughing mob with 20 potent politico friends to take the oath of office from his predecessor's well-trained father...