Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.A.A.C.P.'s Ivy correctly states that other Negroes have held Cabinet posts in France. TIME should have said that Minister Houphouet-Boigny is the first West African Negro to achieve Cabinet rank. Two French Negroes held major Cabinet offices before him: Cuban-born Severiano de Heredia, who became a French citizen, Mayor of Paris and Minister of Public Works, 1887; Martinique-born Henri Lémery, who was Minister of Justice...
PRIVATE BANKERS will take over some of Export-Import Bank's loans. Under a new program designed to release Export-Import Bank funds for new lending, the bank will sell $4,000,000 worth of 5% notes (of a total $24 million) owed by Cuba's Cuban Electric Co. to Manufacturers Trust Co. of New York, hopes to line up other private bankers soon...
...Cuban journalists, who in the past have stoutly upheld the beauty of Cuban women, the virility of Cuban men and the fame of Havana as a city of tradition and culture as well as of rum and rumbas, manned their typewriters again last week. This time the assault was on film: the sequence in Guys and Dolls that shows Gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) and friends living it up with Havana bawds and bravos in a lowdown nightspot...
Penthouse Reporting. In Havana, Pearson stayed in a luxurious penthouse placed at his disposal by Amadeo Barletta Jr., son of a rich Batista crony. The columnist visited Strongman Batista twice and was steered around town by Batista's American Pressagent Edmund Chester. Pundit Pearson irritated Cuban readers with his naive reporting and prize factual boners, e.g., Pearson wrote that Batista "once threw out Cuba's most hated dictator," although, as every Cuban schoolchild knows, Batista had nothing to do with Dictator Gerardo Machado's ouster in 1933. Quipped El Mundo Columnist Carlos Robreno: If Batista...
...first thing that impresses one about Washington is the lack of guayaberas [the loose-fitting Cuban shirt]. I failed to find even one in the U.S. And so my first prediction for today is: the guayabera will never catch on in Washington...