Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using the verb "deplore" once more, Acheson aimed it at Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who had just asked his obedient congress for power to declare war on "any nation," i.e., Cuba, which he suspected of sheltering his foes. Said Acheson: "The government deplores the action of the Dominican Republic in having brought up the possibility of the use of armed force for the purpose of 'war.' It is our profound conviction that the use of this term is ... inappropriate...
Before the summer was out, Fray Marcos' barber had peddled the news as far east as Cuba. The viceroy at Mexico City was quick to act. He decided to send an expedition up the Pacific coast to take possession of Cibola and its neighboring kingdoms. To head the expedition the viceroy chose 30-year-old Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, who helped finance it with a million dollars of his wife's fortune...
From a balcony of the Presidential Palace the President smiled down on the "spontaneous" marchers. His bill to float the largest foreign loan in Cuba's history had already sailed through the Senate with a 37-9 majority, and needed only House approval, which would probably be voted this week...
Closer to America is the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum in Cuba. Established in 1888, the station analyzes tropical plants which exist in a relatives dry climate...
William Randolph Hearst got the Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the highest decoration the Republic of Cuba can give...