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Machado y Morales

American  
[mah-chah-thaw ee maw-rah-les] / mɑˈtʃɑ ðɔ i mɔˈrɑ lɛs /

noun

  1. Gerardo 1871–1939, president of Cuba 1925–33.


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Tremendously resolute, sagacious and most calm, President Gerardo Machado y Morales has probably suppressed more uprisings than any other living chief of state.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a year Publisher Byoir became the best known, most universally liked American in Cuba, confidant alike of President Gerardo Machado y Morales and Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gerardo Machado y Morales is an Hombre del '95, one of the veterans of Cuba's War for Independence in which he rose to be a brigadier general.

From Time Magazine Archive

President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba and President Jose Serrato of Uruguay maintained an air of Augustan calm last week while their Foreign Ministers quarreled over a sneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a U. S. bootlegger's airplane skidded to a halt in Nassau Harbor last week, a pale, pockmarked, frightened Cuban, Gerardo Machado y Morales, instantly demanded police protection.

From Time Magazine Archive

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