Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guani, Uruguayan representative in the Assembly of the League of Nations, allegedly launched the sneer by remarking while at Geneva last fall: "Cuba is tied to the U. S. by her Permanent Treaty."* This remark, unheeded by the rest of the world, has been bandied for months by the Cuban and Uruguayan press until, last week, Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Uruguay, alleging that, "the Cuban national honor has been made the subject of derogatory remarks in Uruguay." Twenty-four hours later an Uruguayan "apology" was delivered at Havana; whereupon at Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, the Cuban Minister, whose...
Outside the city, beyond its courts, its marble walls hushed above the water, brown men, appearing suddenly, hurried down crooked roads; racehorses with tiny loins and immense pointed legs whinnied and thumped in their stalls at the Oriental Park track; they smelled wind. Veterans at Camp Columbia, the Cuban Army headquarters in the suburbs of Marianao, looked dubiously at their tar-paper mansions. And in the middle of Havana the lean eagle erected to the memory of 260 Americans who went down with the battleship Maine, Feb. 15, 1898, seemed to come alive and with a darkness in each wing...
...paragon of infamy and extortion, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, 87, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi, backer of the suppressed "Old Man's Revolution" against Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera (TIME, July 5). General Weyler, as Spanish Governor of Cuba (1896-97), not only taxed Cuban industry into bankruptcy and pocketed the taxes, but sold Spanish arms to Cuban rebels through secret agents-finally sent troops to seize the arms and execute the "traitors." Last week General Weyler's supporters in the now defunct revolution paid in haste fines imposed by Dictator Primo de Rivera...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...Cuba, 'which he reached as Colonel of Rough Riders, General Wood was officially responsible for elimination of yellow fever. Even more to his credit, he taught the Cubans two entirely new ways of life ? sanitation, self-government. Typical of the esteem of his subjects was the occasion when he, a Puritan, was invited to assist at the elevation of a Cuban archbishop...