Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them, with the possible exception of Chile and Colombia, Rotarians with Nazi sympathies are few. One good reason: Rotary International's bitter relations with Nazis in Europe, where Rotary Clubs have been generally suppressed. Suspect are some Rotary Clubs in Mexico, but Rotary harbors no Nazi hotspots in Cuba, Peru, Brazil. In Buenos Aires all but one pro-Nazi member resigned, on German Embassy orders after Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s famed democracy speech...
...Cuba had a field day, despite four bombings in Havana which wounded twelve and caused the arrest of 19 suspects. In addition to seizing the 3,335-ton Finnish steamer Koura and interning as belligerents the crew of 19, the Government completed its commercial rupture with the Axis, as of Sept. 5. Jailed were two more Spanish Falangists for possession of pro-Axis documents...
While the U.S. sped aid to Britain last week, little Cuba was speeding aid to the U.S. Through Havana's streets the Municipal Band led a parade whose banners heralded the opening of National Aluminum Week. Purpose: to send the U.S. 35,000 pounds of aluminum pots & pans -enough for a bomber named the Cuba...
...Every night these women rushed me," reported Mexican Cinesinger Tito Guizar after a trip to Cuba. "They followed me . . . kissed and hugged me ... cut locks from my hair . . . cut pieces of my suits . . . undershirts and underwear. . . ." Promptly Cuban film exhibitors banned Guizar from' the country's screens for what Cuba declared was an insult to the dignity of its women, ∙ ∙ John Steinbeck's Mexican documentary film, The Forgotten Village, was banned as "indecent" by New York's State Board of Censors. It contains childbirth sequences. ∙ ∙ Mae Murray, suing Billy...
...like a souped-up Abraham Lincoln and is as tough, lascivious and predatory as Rhett Butler. Its heroine, Pallas Burmester, is an Abolitionist and a sort of vanguard feminist, but she is also a woman of spirit and of adequate sex appeal. The settings-Bristol, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Spain, of the late 18th Century-exude that wasted "authenticity" of the Hollywood superproduction. Added attractions: informative data about the slave trade, some warm stuff about a Negro concubine, vignettes of convent and plantation life, a storm at sea, litigations over an estate, miscegenations, a few discreet garlic-whiffs...