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...reverse lever because he knew he did not have time to make it work. He closed his eyes as his locomotive's snout struck the rear coach, buried itself eight feet inside. The two steel cars jounced forward thunderously, crunched the wooden car to tinder. From its splintered interior were removed all the wreck's dead (14), most of its injured...
...Jose Miguel Irizarri, and the professor of penal law at Havana University, Guillermo Portela. The five partitioned the posts of government, each to his own talent: the doctor for Secretary of Public Instruction & Sanitation; the law professor for Secretary of State and Justice; the editor for Secretary of the Interior, War and Navy; the banker for Secretary of Finance; the lawyer whose hobby was land division for Secretary of Public Works & Agriculture...
...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 roared to the crowd, "For the first time in history the Cuban people will rule their own destinies...
...somewhat lonely lump in Cuba's pot of ajiaco criollo, President Grau San Martin began to pick a Cabinet. He put in a customs house man, Jose Barquin, as Secretary of the Treasury; an obscure doctor, Antonio Guiteras, as Secretary of the Interior; the son of the famed discoverer of the yellow fever mosquito, Dr. Carlos J. Finlay as Secretary of Sanitation and Public Instruction; a rich architect and engineer, Eduardo J. Chibas, who was a de Cespedes man, as Secretary of Public Works. Meanwhile last week the rest of the hash was still boiling...
...masks, metal hats and epaulets will be weekday wear for civilians. By 1940 kidnapping will be so prevalent that no important person will be without a bodyguard. In 1938-39, the Japanese, having set up another puppet state in China, will be driven out of the interior; the brief Eastern War will ensue, from which both Japan and the U. S. will emerge national wrecks, and revolution will break out in both countries. Positively the last Great War (here Author Wells grows optimistic again) will begin in 1940, will peter out in pestilence, famine, revolution and exhaustion ten years later...