Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada to Peru. They included Inspiration Mine in Arizona and Indian Motorcycle Co. He financed lead, zinc and coal mines, street railways, handled the sensational Midvale Steel financing during the War when the stock rose from 290 to 500. He refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes and, as one of the greatest gamblers of his time, discharged them...
...Odets' 14 companions were a Brooklyn Congregational minister, two Negroes, a correspondent for The Nation, a national women's debating champion, a War veteran. The Negroes danced with Mamie and Regina. The intellectuals informed the girls that they were on their way to make an investigation of Cuban tyranny and undercover U. S. capitalist influence in Cuba. Their particular prey was to be ''America's butcher boy in Cuba," U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Every one of them was, moreover, the official representative of a portentous-sounding Union, League, Association, Order or Committee. And they...
What the girls did not know was that two U. S. Government agents were also on board and that the Cuban Government was expecting the girls' new friends. At the Havana dock, Cuban police and immigration officers swarmed aboard, herded the investigating commission into a corner and with it Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar. Late that night they were all led to a pier, their papers confiscated. Two launches ferried them across Havana Bay. On the dark shore they marched uphill, nudged along by submachine guns, to the Tiscornia Immigration Station. Later that night Author Odets was permitted...
...Cuban Government announced, "These people look more like agitators than investigators." Said Odets: 'The commission represents those Americans who are irreconcilably opposed to the domination of Cuba by American financial and industrial interests. . . . Newspaper reports indicate the complete destruction of civil liberties in Cuba. We insist upon returning. And when we come back, we will come with names they can't afford to touch.''* Next evening Odets & companions were ferried back across Havana Bay, bundled aboard the Oriente, shipped ignominiously back to Manhattan...
...forgotten, but in Manhattan able Playwright Odets was boiling with vivid word-pictures: "The food at Tiscornia was a strange broth of malt and beans. The water had an odd odor. The beds had no mattresses and the bare springs dug into our backs. The crude actions of the Cuban Government and the American Embassy make clear the fear on their part of honest investigation. Ambassador Caffery has a heart of Sugar. Vice Consul Donald D. Edgar played both ends against the middle. He is a fish. I am a Liberal, not a Communist...