Word: abreu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saddest men in the court room was little Felipe Abreu ("Goodfellow Philip") Buencamino, 53, whip of the Philippine Assembly, longtime confidant of President Quezon. Because he offered to cooperate in the bond redemption plan for an alleged $50,000, he was denounced by the Federal prosecutor as the "Judas of the Philippine Assembly." Leaving last December to face the SEC inquiry, he told loyal followers: "I wish to break a little confidence which the Chief Executive (Quezon) has told me. ... He said he . . . did not believe me guilty of the accusations laid at my door." Last week he was convicted...
...offspring. Her name is Mona and she is a 21-year-old chimpanzee. At Orange Park on June 26, 1933, she gave birth to fraternal twins, male & female. The father was an 11-year-old brought from Africa by a sailor. Mona had spent 15 years on Mme Rosalia Abreu's famed ape farm in Havana, was already mother of three. One of her daughters was the first chimpanzee of dated birth and known parentage to mature sexually (at the age of eight) in captivity...
...would loan them an infant ape. The Kelloggs felt frustrated until Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, Yale's ape expert, offered to loan them Gua, 7½-month-old, tan-faced, brown-eyed, black-haired female chimpanzee, born to healthy inmates of the late Senora Rosalie Abreu's ape colony at Havana. The Kelloggs took a bungalow close to the Yale Anthropoid Experiment Station at Orange Park, Fla. and thereafter Gua and Donald, who was 10 months old, lived precisely similar lives...
...months insurrection-rent Cuba has been trying to decide what to do with its legacy of monkeys and apes, left it by famed "Monkey-Mistress" Rosalie Abreu (TIME, Nov. 17). She it was who, rich and eccentric, abandoned European society to found a simian kingdom-the Villa Palatino-on the outskirts of Havana. There, with 120 monkeys, she dwelt in seclusion, except for occasional jaunts to Europe, when she would engage an entire deck of a transatlantic liner for herself & I monkeys. Learned contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director...
...small, stubby-fingered hands last week President Gerardo Machado y Morales had the largest, finest private collection of live apes in the world. Rich, eccentric Senora Rosalie Abreu of Havana was the first human successfully to rear a chimpanzee born in captivity. Excessively difficult, this feat has been performed only seven times, and of these seven records, four go to the credit of Cuba's famed "Monkey Mistress." Some years ago this good lady's sister Martha, tolerant of chimpanzees, died. For reasons of their own the Monkey Mistress's son Pierre and daughter Lilita moved...