Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, melodiously, did the Ward Line christen the ships of the profitable Havana trade. Year after year, they have plied comfortably and euphoniously between Cuba and New York, carrying many a lodge brother, Greek-letter man, Pan-American conferee and others to whom Havana has offered, since 1919, increasingly attractive facilities for convivial conventions...
...decided to omit Venezuela and Cuba from the Hoover itinerary and proceed, after 60 hours in Rio, direct to Key West...
...carpeted pier to see his new friends off on the Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires. "Adios" he cried. "Buen Viaje!" A nine-hour run down the river Plata took them to Montevideo, Uruguay harbor-capital. There lay the U.S.S. Utah ready to carry Goodwill to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and home. But not before the Hoovers should have slept a night in Uruguay and dined with President Juan Campisteguy...
...American conference on arbitration and conciliation at Washington; 2) the council of the League of Nations sitting at Lugano, Switzerland; 3) the permanent Pan-American conciliation commission at Montevideo; 4) King Alfonso XIII of Spain; 5) Pope Pius XI; 6) President Irigoyen of Argentine; 7) President Machado of Cuba...
...province and Secretary Davis dwelt at some length on how the restrictive immigration law of 1924 had worked. Two things worried him, or two phases of the same thing. Immigrants from most countries in the Western Hemisphere escape the quota law. The law specifies that natives of Canada, Mexico, Cuba, etc. etc. shall be nonquota immigrants, and recent court decisions have permitted aliens born in quota countries to commute into the U. S. to work, in border cities like Detroit and Buffalo. Secretary Davis viewed alien commuters with alarm and also the swarms of Mexicans, 80,000 or more...