Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some weeks ago a bespectacled, broad-domed young Cuban arrived in the U. S. unknown to the press, went roving about the country acquainting himself with U. S. life and thought. Last week, having completed his course of study, Dr. Pedro Martinez Fraga turned up at the White House, caught President Roosevelt, about to leave for Warm Springs, just in time to reveal himself in a courteous exchange as new Cuban Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary...
...first time had Dr. Martinez Fraga thus combined scholarship with diplomacy. In 1919. year before he got his doctorate in civil and public law from the University of Havana, he was attache of the Cuban delegation to the Peace Conference at Versailles. He worked up to Cuba's No. 1 diplomatic post by way of service at the 1928 Pan-American Conference, in the Cuban House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933, and as Minister successively to Belgium, The Netherlands, Great Britain...
...Three professional Cuban baseball teams, representing the Cuban Army, the Havana Sporting Club and the Cuban Almendares Club: by 7-to-4, 9-to-1 and 6-to-1; their games against last year's pennant-winning New York Giants, starting their spring training; at Havana...
Allen, who was previously the Cuban Marquise de Casa Maury and before that the London modiste's mannequin Paula Gellibrand. H. R. H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, was described by News-Review as having "drifted from the smart set and left her husband to go the smart socialite rounds for them both . . . with zest." In London the Beaverbrook Daily Ex press (circulation 2,040,000) broke the Kent & Mrs. Allen story in Britain's daily press, sharply editorialized: "One way to keep clear of such news is not to do the things that make such news...
Last week, the Cuban Senate rudely impeached President Gomez (see p. 18). Two days later his Sports Festival started off serenely enough under the new Government. With 3,000 spectators squealing joyously. Sprinter Owens ran 100 yards on the cinder track beside the Tropical Stadium football field in 9.9 sec. His opponent, a mediocre racehorse named Julio McCaw started 40 yards behind Owens, gained ground by cutting across a curve onto the football field, finished second...