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Made Minister of Agriculture in Ramón Grau San Martin's shaky revolutionary government, he had one experience that he is never likely to forget. When Grau was ousted one afternoon, Hevia was sworn in as provisional President. He lasted one day. When an ambitious young ex-sergeant named Fulgencio Batista, from his stronghold at Fort Columbia, ordered the 21-gun presidential salute cut off at the count of nine, Hevia knew that his term was over. His explanation: "Without authority to enforce my responsibility, I resigned. I firmly believe responsibility and authority must go together...
...late Senator José Alemán, President Grau's Education Minister from 1946 to 1948, is acknowledged to have been the most skillful engineer ever to operate on this run. Asked how he got "all that money" out of the Treasury, he is said to have replied: "In suitcases...
Castellanos had fought the Auténticos with one of the strangest political alliances in the republic's history. Behind him were right-wing Republicans, former Dictator Fulgencio Batista, ex-President Grau San Martin (who is Batista's pet hate) and Cuba's small (140,000 members) Communist Party (Popular Socialist Party). The comrades made the most of the coalition victory. Crowed their daily, Hoy: "We salute the overwhelming victory of national significance of our candidate...
...killing her yachtsman-lover in Havana two years ago. They not only thought that the penalty was outrageous, they were grieved by the fact that she was sentenced to serve the time in the old Guanabacoa prison. After she had spent 18 months there, President Ramón Grau San Martin set Satira free...
Wages & Prices. Though experts grant Prío two more years of sugar prosperity (almost 80% of the national income comes from sugar), sugar prices are already off 20%. When planters last summer demanded a proportionate cut in wages, Grau ducked the issue, left it on the desk for Prío. Would he enforce a wage cut? That was the biggest question Carlos Prío would have to face...