Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambitious construction program which called for a 7O0-mile highway skewing the island; and streets, schools, public buildings for Havana. It was largely financed by $60,000,000 borrowed from New York's Chase National Bank and $20,000,000 in Treasury notes given U. S. and Cuban contractors. Ephemeral Cuban Governments which followed Machado would have nothing to do with the debts of the "Tyrant." Late in 1933 payments were suspended. Since then U.S. investors have been hopefully holding...
...composition, Artist de Caviedes brought none of his paintings with him when he hurriedly left Madrid a year ago, last week displayed mostly new pictures done in Cuba, including a starchy self-portrait (see cut). Hard for hard- shelled critics to resist were his cloudless canvases of Jark-skinned Cuban musicians and dancers, bright still-lifes, chic panels entitled Angel Musicians, Voluptuousness of the Rain. Artist de Caviedes left Spain because he had been painting murals in the Vatican just before the Revolution broke out and leaving the part of Spain he was in seemed the prudent thing...
Divorced. Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, hemophilic former Crown Prince of Spain; by dark Marta Rocafort, his second Cuban wife within a year; in Havana...
Soon after dawn one morning last week the four planes left Cali, Colombia for Panama. Because of adverse weather 'reports Major Frank Felix Miranda flew the Colon northeast up the valley between the ranges of the Cordilleras, sat down safely at his destination. The three Cuban planes, commanded by First Lieutenant Antonio Menendez Pelaez, transatlantic Naval ace, wanting to reach the coast before turning north, started to cross the Cordilleras to the west. Twelve miles beyond Cali observers could easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried...
Sadly Cuba decreed two days' national mourning, dispatched the gunboat Patria for the bodies and a seven-man commission to investigate the freak accident. Promptly Mexico's Congress voted three planes, headed by their army air ace Colonel Roberto Fierro and carrying both Mexican and Cuban flags, to replace Cuba's lost squadron. The flight is due in the U. S. in January and reluctantly its sponsors realized that the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse had probably been brought nearer by misfortune...