Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good guess is that Constantine Oumansky's job is bigger than his Embassy. Russia is recognized by only four of 20 Latin American republics-Mexico, Cuba, Colombia and Uruguay-and he has a fertile field to cultivate in the south. From Mexico, he can look north as well, and deal quietly with matters of state which may be too subtle for Soviet diplomats in more conspicuous spots...
...went to Cuba with the Negro loth Cavalry. Lieut. Pershing was 38. He was almost 40 when he was sent to the Philippines and won his captaincy. He was a tough man and a hard disciplinarian, though he had a sentimental affection for his calling. He wrote to his classmates: "Drink deep thoughts of love and affection for us all!" In 1905 he married the daughter of the Hon. Francis E. Warren, Senator from Wyoming...
...almost no incentive for releasing stocks before the new tax year begins; 2) retailers, whose markup goes on after Federal and state liquor taxes, have every incentive to wait for Congress to decide on a higher liquor excise; 3) if some extra blending spirits could be found-perhaps in Cuba-existing stocks could be stretched, sold under new labels for about as much as straight whiskey brings...
...start as a cameraman in 1923, when he was hired by International News Photos at $9 a week and bought his first Speed Graphic with snitched "train money." In 20 years Samuel Schulman has covered transatlantic flights, big murders (like the Lindbergh case), national political conventions, revolutions (in Cuba), war. Last week, in a 234-page book called Where's Sammy? (Random House; $2.50), he told the story of his life. (The book was really written by International News Service's Bob Considine, who also "edited" Captain Ted Lawson's recent Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo...
...Cuban anthem is a march by Pedro Figueredo. Siboney is a love song about a hypothetical Indian girl of the Siboneyes, a tribe that inhabited Cuba at the time of the Spanish conquest...