Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the same time that twinkle-eyed Mr. Woodin left, Señor Oscar Benjamin Cintas, a director of the company and head of its Latin American subsidiaries, also went to the capital to take an official job: Cuban Ambassador to the U. S. Sometimes Charlie Hardy went down to see his friend Oscar and enjoyed the excellent Bacardi cocktails at the Cuban Embassy. After almost a year in Washington Oscar gave up his embassy and returned to the Latin American companies...
...directors' table in the big board room of Jersey City's First National Bank one day last week sat handsome, strapping Oscar Cintas, a long Cuban cigarette between his slim fingers, a sleekly rolled umbrella between his well-tailored knees. Across the table, and nervous under Oscar Cintas' blazing black eyes, sat gnome-like Charlie Hardy. Jampacked in the room were some 125 A. C. F. stockholders, come to the annual meeting to see Hardy and Cintas, no longer friends, have...
They had got along fine until last sum mer when Oscar Cintas finally blew up over what he regarded as a failure by Car & Foundry to go after Latin American business. He resigned as director and president of the company's Argentine, Brazilian and Cuban equipment subsidiaries. Last month, three weeks before A. C. F. reported a $1,662,692 deficit for the fiscal year, Oscar Cintas, from his ritzy suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, sent a bitter letter to stockholders charging that Car & Foundry's directors were on record for only minuscule blocks of stock...
...time limit of 48 hours was set for acceptance. When Lawrence Berenson, representative of American Jewish relief organizations, made counterproposals, the Cubans broke off negotiations. Then the original Cuban offer was accepted but it was too late. The Cubans, who felt that in receiving 5,000 German-Jewish refugees they had already done more than their share, declared the matter "definitely closed," refused to listen to further pleas. A young Jewess who crashed an official reception to appeal to President Laredo Bru on behalf of her parents on the St. Louis was hustled off by aides...
Basis of the St. Louis tragedy was a Cuban decree of May 5, requiring authorization from the Departments of State, Labor and the Treasury in addition to visas and landing permits. The Hamburg-American Line, according to the Cubans, was informed of this change in the immigration law before the St. Louis sailed for Havana, but chose to gamble on the chance that once the Jews were planted on Cuba's doorstep, formalities would be waived...