Word: cubans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...called it Cayo Hueso which meant bone reef. English tongues twisted it into Key West. The flat little island, six miles long at the tip of the spiny archipelago which curves southwest from the Florida peninsula, was settled in 1822, the southernmost town in the continental U. S. The Cuban revolution of 1869 sent political refugees scudding across 90 miles of open water to Key West as a safe haven. A Cuban named Eduardo Hidalgo Gato started the first modern cigar factory there five years later and the community began its climb to prosperity...
...cream off the passenger traffic to Cuba. The Florida East Coast R. R. reduced its Key West schedule to one train a day and the Atlantic Coast Line cut its through New York-to-Key West sleepers down to two a week. Seatrains from New Orleans killed the Cuban freight business. The resort crowd drifted elsewhere...
...This is most unfair. This is most unjustified," whined that old dog of Cuban politics President Carlos Mendieta as the four ABC members of his Cabinet abruptly withdrew. Their desertion left sly Dr. Mendieta, who could find his way blindfolded to the U. S. Embassy, more than ever dependent on his ''good neighbor" in the White House. Obligingly President Roosevelt decreed last week an embargo which will stop all shipments of U. S. munitions to Cuba except munitions requested by the Cuban Government for the shipment of which the U. S. State Department will issue licenses...
...down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns in a red Pontiac sedan that suddenly rolled alongside a monster Havana parade of ABC men, women and children. The guns killed twelve, four of them...
...should have the right to intervene in Cuba at any time to preserve Cuban independence or U. S. life and property...