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...them elbowed for the leadership. One was Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin y Madrid, 49, able Havana surgeon, professor of anatomy at Havana University. A bachelor, he has the calm of a surgeon, the detached idealism of a professor. The other was Sergio Carbo, tall, black-haired, volatile editor of the radical weekly La Semana, which Machado once suppressed "for pornography." The crowd liked Carbo's strong, graceful speaking manner, liked to recall that he had helped lead the unsuccessful Gibara revolt against Machado in 1931. The other three commissioners were a retired banker and ABC member, spectacled Porfirio...
...debts and obligations of the Republic." They declared all the laws on the books still in force until voided by their Junta's unanimous decree. To placate everybody, they promised to turn over the government to "the Constituent Assembly, which is to be called.'' But Commissioner Grau San Martin (pronounced "Grou Sahn Marteen") explained quietly that, before an election could be held, a new census would be needed to clean up the election rolls. To the sugar-workers of the interior, he added that the Junta "has no anti-agrarian tendencies." From the Palace balcony, Commissioner Carbo...
Professors: Dr. Carlos de la Torre, Dr. Raymond Grau San Martin...
...Hoevenberg bob-sled run. Most calamitous of the accidents was last week's in which four members of the German squad, practicing on their round-runnered Deutschland II, jumped the slide at Shady Corner, going 65 m.p.h., and plunged into an 85-ft. gully. Steersman Fritz Grau, 37-year-old Berlin radio manufacturer, and his crew of three were hospitalized for sprained backs, concussions, lacerations, fractured skulls, broken wrists and shoulders...
Then came another message. General Ponce was deposed as leader of the Junta. New ruler of Peru was the revolution's starter, vigorous Colonel Sanchez Cerro. Further the Junta warned the Almirante Grau that if the cruiser did not immediately put about, return Augusto Leguia to Peru to await proper punishment, the cruiser would be considered an enemy vessel, its crew subject to court martial...