Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuban bombs are about as potent as cannon crackers-that of the faithless roof guard being an exception. Just to show how steady his nerves were, President Machado made public appearance on the Cuban Independence Day ("The Day of the Shout of Revolution'') last week, and inaugurated Cuba's brand new $18,000,000 Capitol Building...
There was virtually no disturbance, except that a young man in the crowd pulled out a revolver. Dictator Machado's efficient police sprang upon the youth and disarmed him before he could fire. Amid near panic, the band burst into Cuba's national anthem, gradually reassuring everyone. When confidence was restored, His Excellency continued his rather difficult speech...
...have gouged the facts out of the fellow would have been crude. Cuba's deductive Philo Vance reasoned to himself that plumbing plans were the clue. How many sets of plans were there? Three! How many were not up to date ? One! Where was that? In the archives of the City of Havana...
...years aide-de-camp to the President, and commander of the palace guards. Lightning-like, the deductive flash of suspicion leaped from the plumbing plans in the Municipal Archives through the ex-Mayor, his sister and the President's aide to the soldier and the bomb. Confronted by Cuba's Philo Vance with these crushing suspicions, the soldier broke down utterly. He had acted under orders from his superior officer the President's aide, he confessed. He had been given the bomb (12 Ib. of dynamite) at the residence of ex-Mayor Gomez. Oddly enough, though...
Captain Hobson is an almost forgotten hero. When he was young and in the U. S. Navy, the U. S. went to war with Spain. Just before Roosevelt rode up San Juan Hill in Cuba, Captain Hobson rode boats around the island. The Spanish fleet cowered in Santiago Harbor. Captain Hobson took command of the coal-carrier Merrimac and sank her at the harbor's entrance in a vain attempt to bottle up the Spanish fleet. Spanish sailors caught Captain Hobson. They courteously offered him a swig of liquor. He refused it, took a gulp of coffee. The Spaniards kept...