Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reading your paper of April 3, I find a writing entitled "Medicine" about the Pan-American Medical Congress, lately celebrated at Dallas, Texas. And I have been greatly surprised to read that Cuba is among the countries whose governments have paid the doctors' expenses. You had a very poor information and I wish you to please make clear that I myself covered all my expenses and I can assure you that no one of the Cuban's doctors received a single penny from the government, and that we were not representing the government. We were there working...
...Havana, Cuba...
...another faction that wanted to spend less than $1,000,000,000 for the same purposes. ¶ On June 3, 1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson won the nation's applause by sinking the Merrimac to bottle up the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Last week President Roosevelt pinned a Congressional Medal of Honor on the Hobson breast for that feat. Mr. Hobson is nowadays a famed anti-narcotics crusader (TIME, March 2, 1931). ¶ Long and loyal service was rewarded last week when President Roosevelt appointed Robert Hayes Gore of Florida to be Governor of Puerto...
Last week President Roosevelt appointed Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles to be Ambassador to Cuba (see p. 12). "Persona grata" to the Government, he was at once marked by anti-Machado Cubans as the catalytic that may somehow purge Cuba of Terror. They believed that Dictator Machado did not know last week where he stands with the U. S. Many wanted to believe the rumor that Machado is all packed, ready to flee Cuba and the thousand vendettas that have been sworn against...
Died. Regino Truffin, 29, elder son of Nieves Perez Chaumont de Truffin Walsh; of a liver ailment; in Marianao, Cuba. His long illness delayed for more than a year the marriage of his mother to Montana's late Senator Thomas James Walsh (TIME, March...