Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuba heartily joined the goodwill flight plan, added three airplanes and her best flyers to the single machine of the Dominican Republic. Suddenly last week their months of flight talk were shocked to a dismayed whisper as word was received that seven of the nine flyers, the whole Cuban contingent, had been killed in an almost incredible triple collision in the mountains of Colombia...
...name of America's most ancient city from San Domingo to his own. The Dominican airplane, a single-motored, 450-h. p. Curtiss-Wright 19R, piloted by the nation's Army Air Commander Major Frank Felix Miranda, was named the Colon, Spanish version of Columbus. The three Cuban planes, all new single-motored, 285-h. p. Stinson "Reliants," were romantically titled after Columbus' discovery ships- Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. With them as representative of Pan American Columbus Society went Havana Journalist Ruy de Lugo Vina. Gaily they took off. visited in turn the nearby Indies, Venezuela...
While he was working on the section in July the Cuban Government, "for relevant and humanitarian service," bestowed on Mr. De Besa the Decoration of Honor and Merit Grade of the Comendador. the same Cuban kudos given last month to Mrs. Ogden Reid, the publisher's ex-secretary and present wife, who runs the New York Herald Tribune...
Section XII brought the Herald Tribune $32,000 from the Cuban Government and business interests. The U. S. Postal regulations require that when material of this type-is carried second class, it must be labeled Advertisement. This regulation caused the Tribune its first headache, since the section was merely announced as "written and presented by friends of Cuba." From the Post Office the Tribune got a warning, replied with an apology. From public opinion it received the most damaging attack that a U. S. newspaper has had to stand for since a Hearst photographer dangerously crowded Col. Charles Lindbergh...
...born Laurence S. De Besa, who claims his father was physician to the last Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II. Mr. De Besa first drew attention in the newspaper business five years ago when he went to Cuba to sell dictatorial Gerardo Machado the idea of running a special Cuban section in Hearst newspapers. Having sold the idea, Mr. De Besa adroitly sold the advertising space to Cuban interests, then collected and wrote a glowing account of Boss Machado & friends which appeared only in the Washington Herald. After similar activity on behalf of Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Santo Domingo...