Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terrorism of the reactionary Machado administration in Cuba against the student opposition was climaxed last Friday with the massacre of six students by the Habana police, and the further application of a rigid censorship. President Machado two years ago closed the University of Habana which was proving mildly provoking for his autocratic regime with its incessant protests against his policies. This further increased the militancy and the student's tendencies toward futile exhibitionism. At present the government, according to the National Student League "resorts to open murder of the most active students in a vain attempt to stifle the protests...
Grossly over-emphasized as a prime example of American generosity to the embryonic spirit of Cuban independence, and flaunted as perfect evidence of the non-imperialism of America, the political independence of Cuba is in reality a perfect farce. Theoretically autonomous, the Cuban government dares not cross swords with American sugar trusts. Granting Cuba independence was a clever move. Pseudo-political independence placed the Cuban people only to bring about a thorough economic exploitation of their country by Americans...
...last week. It provided a two-year moratorium (until July 1, 1935) for principal and interest payments on bonds or mortgages of Cuban public services, railroads, sugar mills, farms and other real estate. More important was another bill passed by Parliament empowering President Machado to default any part of Cuba's foreign debt, $15,000,000 of which must be paid by June...
Perhaps prematurely, jubilant anti-Machadoans hailed this as the beginning of the end. Ever since El Gallo (The Rooster) has been in power he has been scrupulously careful to see that Cuba's government debts to U. S. bankers, and the pay of his own soldiers, were paid on the nail no matter how long school teachers, or government contractors might have to wait for their money. Cubans insist and most U. S. bankers agree that the June 30 debt payment cannot be met. Despite feverish scouring of the treasury Army pay is already in arrears...
Manhattan to Cuba as her husband's spy. Such a romance could obviously entail comedy of one sort or another. It is presented instead in a sentimental mood which ill befits the confusion between Brent's romantic interest in the heroine and his thoroughly ungallant professional curiosity. What makes The Keyhole acceptable entertainment is the charm of Kay Francis' acting, good settings by Anton Grot and a few amusing sequences in which Allen Jenkins, as a brash and dipsomaniac assistant detective, pursues a mercenary blonde (Glenda Farrell) under the delusion that she is an heiress...