Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students and the A. B. C. have set themselves to clean up Cuba of its many curses: such as lottery, universal gambling, brothels and dives, vile publications as Politico Comica and La Scinana, graft, politics that exploit Cuba for personal gain, regardless of public advantage. And they seek a system of liberal education, purity of the press, a wholesome young manhood and young womanhood of Cuba Libre, the total eradication of snobocracy, a nation-wide sense of honor, true and devoted,men and women. Then they will have gained Freedom, Liberty, Justice and Honor, as few nations yet possess...
Director of Athletics Havana University Havana, Cuba...
...plebiscite were held now it would show that I have the popular support to hold my position. For me to yield to the first individual who demands mv withdrawal would establish a sad precedent and threaten the sovereignty of Cuba. In spite of opinion to the contrary, I am governing with the laws and the Constitution, and my only lament is that several times the appearance has been that I was governing outside the Constitution...
...announced that Dr. Howard Lee McBain, dean of the faculty of Political Science at Columbia University (whence have come so many Roosevelt experts), had been invited to Cuba to redraft Cuba's election laws, because "the 1934 Presidential election must be entirely beyond suspicion...
Vexed last week was upright Winthrop Williams Aldrich, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and president of Chase National Bank (world's largest). And with good cause. Banker Aldrich had read in TIME, May 15: ". . . Of Chase's $30,000,000 first loan [to Cuba], $2,000,000 went into commissions-$500,000 to 'Wood Louse' Obregon" (Jose Emilio Obregon, son-in-law of Cuba's President Machado...