Word: joaquin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Cuba's new Cabinet beaming President Mendieta drafted as Secretary of the Treasury a onetime lawyer for the National City Bank, Senor Joaquin Martinez Saenz. From Havana the Republican New York Herald Tribune's alert Tom Pettey cabled...
...figure growing daily larger on the Cuban scene is young Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz, leader of the Secret ABC and present Secretary of the Treasury. In his office last week he received U. S. reporters, wasted no time on the sins of the previous administration, but talked as frankly and directly as a Roosevelt New Dealer...
...storekeepers finally raised their steel shutters. After a conference with Ambassador Welles, the Provisional President formed a partial Cabinet, with no Secretary of State. Triumphant members of the ABC, the secret anti-Machado cabal formed three years ago to combat the Porra, received four Cabinet posts, with Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz, chief of the A B C, as Secretary of the Treasury...
...Vientos (''Four Winds") is the name of the military airport near Madrid where, three years ago, Major Ramon Franco (''The Spanish Lindbergh") led a dramatic but abortive revolt by 500 Spanish aviation officers and enlisted men. One of Major Franco's followers was Lieut. Joaquin Collar. Last week at Tablada Airdrome, near Seville, Lieut. Collar and Captain Mariano Barberan, bald-pated air hero of the Moroccan war, climbed into a long-snouted Breguet biplane named Cuatro Vientos. Lumbering beneath an enormous fuel load (1,400 gal.) the plane took more than a half-mile...
...year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams have multiplied in the last ten years. Mexico City's best professional baseball team, the Aztecas, is fully as competent as most C league teams in the U. S. Dignitaries like onetime Secretary of War General Joaquin Amaro, General Jaime Quinones, Julio Miller, whose father-in-law is Mexico's Minister to England, play fair polo at their club near Mexico City. The country's boss, Plutarco Elias Calles. prefers poker but he also enjoys riding, golf; he had a set of Bobby Jones clubs...