Word: raul
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...make himself the de jure as well as de facto boss of Cuba, he persuaded the politically potent Menocal family to renounce its support of Opposition Candidate Dr. Ramon Juan San Martin and swing crucial Havana his way. In return he got behind dapper, high-living 40-year-old Raul Garcia Menocal y Seva in the city elections, hoisted him from Havana's ballrooms and race courses to the mayoralty. Last week came Raul's induction. Immediately he ran into trouble...
...m.p.h., that only one of the 33 competing cars was powered with more than eight cylinders, that this year's mechanical emphasis was on new methods of supercharging, that six foreign cars were entered, and, for the first time in a decade, two foreign drivers: South American Champion Raul Riganti and Parisian Rene LeBegue, on leave from the French Army...