Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cuban Ambassador prepared to sail for Havana, where there is almost always a cool breeze. At the Brazilian Embassy there was a great packing of trunks and boxes for a move to the Adirondacks...
...adopted "Zzyz" as a nom de telephone, secured last place in the book. But his shrewdness brought publicity and publicity brought imitation. The last name in new telephone books about to be issued is not Lewis Browne Zzyz but R. Cantarrana Zzyzz. The usurper is Ramon Cantarrana, young Cuban, onetime sugar broker, last week honeymooning in Cuba...
Publicity Director Michelson is a distinct gain for capital Democracy. Born 60 years ago in Nevada, he has spent his life as a newsman, starting in San Francisco. On the staff of the New York Journal he covered the Cuban Insurrection, was seized by Spain for crossing lines without permission, imprisoned for several months. He is the brother of famed Scientist Albert Abraham Michelson (University of Chicago) and Author Miriam Michelson...
...theory that Big Names can often do Big Things, Joseph E. Barlow, 66-year-old U. S. citizen with a $5,000,000 land claim against the Cuban Government (TIME, April 29), last week hired what he considered two Big Names to help him pull his claim through to payment. One name was Campbell Bascom Slemp, the other was Everett Sanders. Both were once secretaries to President Coolidge. Shrewd men both, Messrs. Slemp and Sanders entered the Barlow case just at a time when it appeared most likely to prove lucrative...
After the Spanish War, Mr. Barlow obtained large tracts of land in what later became the heart of Havana. Their title rested upon a 400-year-old Spanish royal grant which bounded them "as far as a dog's bark can be heard." Cuban courts decided he had been despoiled of his property, but the Cuban Government refused to make redress and, vexed by his pestiferousness, expelled him from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose...