Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kirby "Hollywood" Jordan has had one of the most colorful careers in organized baseball, a career which has taken him through three minor leagues, an-all-star series in Cuba, and spring training with a major league club. Still, the tall, handsome Chief, in charge of athletics for the Radar School, would much rather talk about clothes...
...Cuba's election of June 1, which was encouragingly open & aboveboard, almost resulted in a military dictatorship. The news came out last week. Two nights after frail, professorial Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin was elected President, his Vice President-elect Dr. Raúl de Cardenas* trotted nervously across a shadowy lawn where U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden was dining with friends. Drawing the Ambassador aside, he spluttered that rough, tough General Manuel Benitez, Chief of the National Police, planned to seize President Fulgencio Batista, prevent Grau from assuming the Presidency by setting up a military dictatorship...
...danger was real, Ambassador Braden acted vigorously. Making a nice diplomatic distinction between "intervention" and "intercession," he sent word to both Batista and Benitez that such undemocratic shenanigans were not in order. If Dr. Grau were kept from his lawful office, the U.S. would throw an airtight blockade around Cuba...
...Latin Americans, who felt that their underdeveloped countries should receive loans rather than make them, wanted to make only nominal subscriptions to the Bank. But under the leadership of able young Luis Machado (personal representative of Cuba's President-elect Grau) they finally boosted their subscription to 70% of the amount asked...
What Now? At 43, Cuba's strong man suddenly had new prestige. Fulgencio Batista was hardly ripe for retirement. He talked of a long trip among Cuba's neighbor countries; perhaps the ex-cane-chopper dreamed of becoming a voice in all Latin America. He was a man to watch. He was sure to keep one eye on the home island, to counter anything smacking of unpractical government. From his balcony last week he told his pueblo that if they ever needed him, he would answer their cries. Dr. Grau, preparing to move into the Presidential Palace next...