Word: calixto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba honor the hero who "carried the message to Garcia." To do so, he landed on the Cuban coast in a fishing smack (which was hailed and questioned by a Spanish man-o'-war), traveled on foot across jungled Oriente Province for seven days, until he found General Calixto Garcia, leader of Cuban insurgents, and delivered his oral message (not a letter, Elbert Hubbard to the contrary). The "message" asked General Garcia about the strength of his troops, which were to collaborate with the U. S. Army in fighting Spain. President McKinley's comment, when...
...Barmim and The Prisoner of Shark Island. A Message to García is more ore from the same vein, showing that 1898 courier, Lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan, performing the errand which the late Elbert Hubbard publicized in his famed essay. Dispatched by President McKinley to give Cuban General Calixto García a verbal message to the effect that the U. S. was on his side in his revolt against Spain and to discover the strength of the rival armies, Rowan did so after a harrowing foot journey through the Cuban jungle...
...through the last dusty stack of state documents. Then he mopped his dirty forehead, admitted failure in his search. For weeks, General Garcia Velez had been looking for the original Message to Garcia, made famed by the late Elbert Hubbard. In 1898, he knew his father, the Rebel Chieftain Calixto Garcia, received a momentous message from President McKinley asking his aid against the Spaniards. Like Writer Hubbard, General Carlos Garcia Velez was sure that it had been a written document and that Col. Andrew Summers Rowan had "sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it across his heart...
...when U. S. papers flared with stories of "Butcher" Weyler, Calixto Garcia, Maximo Gomez, the Philadelphia Bulletin sent Artist Luks to Cuba as war correspondent and illustrator. Because he was not content to gather his news at Havana cafe tables, he was arrested, imprisoned four times. "The spiggoties," says he, "slammed me into the cooler . . . put me away with the rats and the Cubans and deliberated whether to shoot me at dawn or sundown...