Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yacht was built at J. & G. Thompson's shipyards, Clydebank, Scotland, painted white, launched as the Mayflower, sold to Manhattan Landlord Ogden Goelet for $1,250,000. Two years later the U. S. Navy bought her for $430,000, ran her as a dispatch & gunboat in Cuban waters. Thereupon the naval auxiliary Mayflower cruised in U. S. waters and abroad, carried such potentates as Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, made history as the signing place of the peace treaty following the Russo-Japanese War. In 1902 she became the Presidential yacht of Roosevelt...
...Paloma, though once tremendously popular in Mexico, was written by a Spaniard who lived in Cuba, and both it and La Cucaracha are more Cuban than Mexican in rhythm. Today most of Mexico's music is Spanish in origin. But ancient instruments dug from Aztec tombs prove that Mexico was musical long before Cortez & his Spaniards conquered...
...Cuban police swept over the island last week with a blanket order to round up radicals, "detained" hundreds, for several days. With this as a prelude, Cuba's dominant army "strong man," squat, swarthy Colonel Fulgencio Batista held elections to fill 81 seats in the House, one in the Senate...
...members drew lots to determine those who would serve the short two-year term and at last week's balloting a majority of the unlucky holders were up for reelection. All the candidates, although they represented seven parties, were pledged to Batista and his Three-Year Plan. Cuban voters were so apathetic that less than 30% of the electorate went to the polls...
...first time in Cuban history military men watched over the polling places. Boastfully proud of his army and contemptuous of Cuban politicians, Batista called this election "the fairest and most honorable in the republic's history." Cuba's much-bossed President, Federico Laredo Bru, who has long been expected to announce his resignation after this election, kept mum last week about himself, but made a possibly ironic speech of "thanks" to citizens of Santiago for their "demonstrative" greeting to his "representative," Batista, on the occasion of a grand fiesta celebrating the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of Cuba...