Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole cucumber-shaped island of Cuba seethed with strikes and street fights this week. President Gerardo Machado, who fortnight ago restored Constitutional guarantees (suspended since 1930) to facilitate the mediation of U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles between the Government and oppositionists (TIME, June rushed home from a fishing trip to proclaim: "I hereby declare Cuba in a state of intense agitation! The military may assist in preserving order in whatever manner necessary." By this time Havana was becoming slowly paralyzed by the growth of a series of strikes which began last week among bus drivers, spread to waterfront workers, slaughterhouse...
Divorced. Noble Brandon Judah, 49, onetime (1927-29) U. S. Ambassador to Cuba; by Dorothy Patterson Judah. 40, daughter of the late John Patterson, founder of National Cash Register Co.; in Carson City...
...professionals became ambassadors and under Roosevelt, so far, the same number have received that rank. In Belgium, Greece, Spain and Rumania the President turned out career men to put in political protégés but he balanced the score by replacing politicos with career men in Canada, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Turkey...
Bahamas to the blue depths off Cuba's north coast. One of these sighted Fisher man Hemingway's hook-spitted mackerel, struck, and the battle was on. "He jumped," the stout scrivener said, "like in the Apocalypse!" Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed, pulled over the launch's freeboard. Back at Havana Mr. Hemingway posed happily beside his catch as it was hung on the custom house scales. The fish weighed 468 lb.. was 12 ft. 8 in. long. Not only was it the biggest marlin ever caught off the Cuban...
Since Mr. Grinnell began trolling for broadbills where Long Island Sound joins the Atlantic, many another fisherman has gone there for the sport, preferring cool Montauk to torrid Cuba in the summer months. Many a Florida fishing captain works out of Montauk every year now. The ablest ones include Captains Bill Hatch, Bill Fagan, Howard Lance, Charlie Thompson, Tom Gifford...