Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albania, four; Africa, one; Australia, two; Austria, two; Belgium, six; Brazil, four; Canada, 41; China, 56; Costa-Rica, two; Columbia, two; British Columbia, one; Cuba, five; Czecho-Slovakia, one; England, 25; Finland, one; France, ten; Germany, ten; Greece, five; Guatemala, City, one; Hawaii, ten; Ireland, two; Italy, four; Japan, ten; Korea, two; Latvia, one; Lithuania, one; Norway, one; Nova Scotia, six; Palestine, four; Panama, one; Peru, one; Phillippine Islands, one; Poland, four; Porto Rico, five; Roumania, two; Russia, six; South Africa, four; Spain, four; Sweden, three; Switzerland, six; Syria, one; British West Indies, one; Turkey, five; Venezuela, three; Yugoslavia...
When other dictators cut the wages of their Government employes they always except the Army & Navy, bulwarks of Dictatordom. Most recent instance was the action of Dictator-President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. He dared not risk discontent among his lighting men, but slashed the pay of meek civil servants as much as 35%. But last week, in Rome the Original, the One & Only Benito Mussolini announced that every man or woman employed in any capacity by the Italian Government will accept on Dec. 1, 1930 wage cuts as follows...
...became known that Senora Michaela Romero and her 21-year-old daughter have lived for five years in a West 47th Street hotel, have seen no one, received no messages or telephone calls. Their meals are left outside the door of their suite; their bills are paid from Cuba out of their large fortune. Seven years ago a son died. Five years ago they believed he had sent them messages from the spirit world. Soon the father, Jose Cainas Romero, died, promising he too would send messages. These they await...
...finest private collection of live apes in the world. Rich, eccentric Senora Rosalie Abreu of Havana was the first human successfully to rear a chimpanzee born in captivity. Excessively difficult, this feat has been performed only seven times, and of these seven records, four go to the credit of Cuba's famed "Monkey Mistress." Some years ago this good lady's sister Martha, tolerant of chimpanzees, died. For reasons of their own the Monkey Mistress's son Pierre and daughter Lilita moved to Paris. Senora Rosalie was left alone in Havana with her 120 simians. Last week...
...continued for many years, was decided in favor of the U. S. company a year ago (TIME, July i, 1929). But Robert Bosch prepared to appeal for the right to use his own name and last winter a truce was established. To run 49 years, it provided that in Cuba, Mexico, Canada, U. S. and U. S. dependencies American Bosch could use the magic word "Bosch," outside of this territory it would have to use "American Bosch." Similarly, in this U. S. territory Robert Bosch would have to use its full title, whereas in the rest of the world "Bosch...