Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When cannon boomed from Santiago de Cuba in 1898, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, temporarily down the coast on his crack, three-funneled flag-cruiser New York, turned her and raced back in time to see the last ship of Cervera's squadron sink, in the second and decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet...
James Brown Scott, onetime Major and Judge Advocate of the U. S. Army. Cuba...
Abelardo Pacheco, editor of Voz del Pueblo, small but vociferous Nationalist (antiGovernment) Havana weekly, has lately been shocking conservative Cubans by boldly printing what others dare only think about Cuba's horn-spectacled President General Gerardo Machado y Morales, El Gallo (The Rooster): that he is completely subservient to U. S. big business interests, that all serious political opponents are exiled from Cuba, that political prisoners are thrown to the sharks of Havana harbor from a chute in the Cabana fortress (next to Morro Castle), that though private crime has been spectacularly reduced, political assassination is common...
Joining to help Cuba were those interests whose investments are greatest in Cuba. Said the official announcement: "Representatives of Chase National Bank, National City Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Hayden. Stone & Co.. executives of U. S.-owned companies having production in Cuba and representatives of Cuban-owned estates compose the committee under the Chairmanship of Thomas L. Chadbourne...
...firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy is as impressive in law groups as his 6 ft. 6 in. of physique is among men, his Jezebel among yachts. While his interest in sugar may be academic, it has a family base. His brother, W. A. Chadbourne, owns two large plantations in Cuba, has not fared very well. Lawyer Chadbourne is said to have been suggested for the position by Col. John R. Simpson, head of Cuba Cane Products Co., biggest of producers...