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This homely comment by the morgue keeper at Colon Cemetery summed up the less important, the bloody side of conditions in Havana last week as neat little...
...their master were two and a half years on the road. Gato came down with an infected leg in Tapachula, Mexico, had to be shipped to Mexico City by rail, but Mancha and Tschiffely made the whole trek (except for a short boat-ride from Cartagena to Colon, another around revolutionary Nicaragua) under their own power...
...touring S. S. Lafayette was held "up in Colon, Panama, quarantined for half an hour, waiting for New Mexico's U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting...
...extend my hearty felicitations on this memorable occasion." President Hoover cabled President Arias on the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Republic of Panama. The "memorable occasion": Nov. 2, 1903-U. S. S. Nashville arrives at Colon; Nov. 3-Panama revolts from Colombia, declares its independence; Nov. 4-the revolutionary leader exclaims: "President Roosevelt has made good! Long live President Roosevelt! Long live the American Government!" Nov. 6-the U. S. recognizes the Panama Government; Nov. 18-the U. S. and Panama sign a canal treaty; Jan. 27, 1914- President Wilson opens the Panama Canal; April...
...Aguiar, who was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful anti-Machado revolution (TIME, Aug. 31. 1931) and shot him four times. The next day he died. The Government then proceeded with the burial of Speaker of the Senate Dr. Vazquez Bello. But before the funeral, detectives thoughtfully inspected Colon Cemetery where the interment was to have taken place. They found not one but 23 separate bombs planted near the spot marked for Dr. Vazquez Bello's grave, with enough dynamite to blow up the entire Vazquez Bello family, most of the heads of the Cuban Government who were...