Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Cuban Government and business interests. The U. S. Postal regulations require that when material of this type-is carried second class, it must be labeled Advertisement. This regulation caused the Tribune its first headache, since the section was merely announced as "written and presented by friends of Cuba." From the Post Office the Tribune got a warning, replied with an apology. From public opinion it received the most damaging attack that a U. S. newspaper has had to stand for since a Hearst photographer dangerously crowded Col. Charles Lindbergh's car to the curb on a hairpin...
...Nation: "The Herald Tribune has got away with the publication of paid propaganda at a nice profit. The money that swelled its advertising revenue came out of the hide of an oppressed nation...." To which New Republic added: "It is a portrait which everyone informed about the situation in Cuba knows to be fantastically remote from the truth." The advertising director of the New York Times, in a confidential memorandum to his staff, which was picked up and reprinted by the Guild Reporter, recognized the moral obloquy involved in Section XII, also reported that publishers "protesting against the section...
...Herald Tribune this extraordinary headache was short, 68-year-old Rumanian-born Laurence S. De Besa, who claims his father was physician to the last Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II. Mr. De Besa first drew attention in the newspaper business five years ago when he went to Cuba to sell dictatorial Gerardo Machado the idea of running a special Cuban section in Hearst newspapers. Having sold the idea, Mr. De Besa adroitly sold the advertising space to Cuban interests, then collected and wrote a glowing account of Boss Machado & friends which appeared only in the Washington Herald. After similar...
From South America, Cuba and most sections of the U. S. airplanes big and little last week converged on Miami, Fla., until nearly 500 were grouped around the tourist city's newly enlarged Municipal Airport for the 10th annual All-American Air Maneuvers: four days of races, aerobatics and conferences. Mostly privately owned and flown, more than 200 of the planes present were Taylor "Cubs," Aeronca and Taylorcraft; 40 others were righting and bombing machines from the U. S. Marine Base at Quantico, Va. In a speech before the meet, Contest Chairman Carl Fromhagen enthusiastically declared...
From many parts of the world, field collections were presented to the herbarium, as follows: 249 ferns of Cuba: 118 plants of Colombia; 24 rare species secured on Arctic expeditions; 459 plants of Del Norte Country, California; three isotypes of new srectes; 237 plants of Hawaii; 42 rare plants of Indiana; 30 plants of Costa Rica; 1761 plants from Brazil; 45 local or critical plants of California; 99 plants illustrating critical Flora of the Aleutian Islands; 292 plants of Jamaica and the southern United States; 3087 critical herbaceous plants, chiefly of South America and Mexico; 13 plants newly discovered...