Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months insurrection-rent Cuba has been trying to decide what to do with its legacy of monkeys and apes, left it by famed "Monkey-Mistress" Rosalie Abreu (TIME, Nov. 17). She it was who, rich and eccentric, abandoned European society to found a simian kingdom-the Villa Palatino-on the outskirts of Havana. There, with 120 monkeys, she dwelt in seclusion, except for occasional jaunts to Europe, when she would engage an entire deck of a transatlantic liner for herself & I monkeys. Learned contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director...
...Cuba. Newspapers suddenly charged last week that a Major Arsenic Ortiz, former military supervisor of Oriente Province, and Lieut. Felipe Valle and Corporal Jose Heredia were responsible for the assassination of 44 political prisoners at Santiago in recent months. Soldiers saved the life of Corporal Heredia from a riotous mob. Lieutenant Valle either committed suicide or was murdered. He left a note which approaches the height of understatement for a 44-fold assassin: "In a moment of weakness I have done things I am ashamed...
...Dear Sirs . . . My words 'uniformed asses,' 'Attila's horse,' 'official bandit' and others similar to that ... do not refer to Major Arsenio Ortiz but are intended for whomever shall be found guilty of the horrible deaths inflicted on citizens of Santiago de Cuba...
Honored. Frank Gillmore, president of the Actors' Equity Association; with the annual gold medal of the American Arbitration Association "for distinguished service in the establishment of commercial peace through arbitration"; in Manhattan. Previous medalists: Steelman Charles M. Schwab, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, Manhattan Realtor Frederick Brown, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
...many years Refined Syrups lost money. Its chief problem lay in the heavy duty of $40 a ton on the sugar-syrup which it imported from Cuba. Consultants Johnston and Cutting were called in. They found that if the solution were 48% sugar instead of 68% the duty would be 83^ a ton. But this solution would ferment within ten days. Hence they suggested that syrup ships halt at the three-mile limit while the syrup was being mixed with water to reduce its sugar content. They charged that the company had promised to let them patent the idea...