Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tainted Crown Prince, deathly pale, spindle-shanked and likely to bleed to death from the dread disease hemophilia, supplied Spanish Republicans with one of their best reasons for ousting the Royal House (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.) Last week sentimental Cuban matrons murmured that love can cure and conquer all. One thing was certain. Spain's one-time Crown Prince Alfonso no longer looks tainted. From 92 Ib. his weight has climbed to 136-since the day twelve months ago when into the Swiss sanatorium where he was lying came a ripe-lipped, radiant Cuban patient, Senorita Edelmira...
...Switzerland some people go to sanatoriums just for fun. What, if anything, was the matter with the curvesome Cuban brunette remains her secret. In a whirlwind armchair courtship she accepted flowers from Don Alfonso, gently agreed to his renouncing royal rights in order to marry a commoner and two weeks ago posed with him elaborately for movietones while her impish sister whistled "Who Stole My Heart Away...
...commission was paid by Cuba to Senor Obregon not as an individual but as the Chase's Havana manager. After deducting expenses, including legal fees of $58,055.07 for Cuban lawyers (Antonio de Bustamente, Hernandez Cartaya, Garcia Montes) the balance of the commission, some $375,000, was distributed among the original underwriters of the loan: Chase National Bank, Chase Securities Corp., Blair & Co. Inc., Equitable Trust Co., Continental Bank of Chicago...
Engaged. Alfonso, 26, Prince of Asturias, eldest son of Alfonso XIII and heir-claimant to the Spanish throne, and Senorita Edelmira Sampedro, 27, daughter of a Cuban merchant, whom the Prince met at a Lausanne sanitarium where he was treated for hemophilia. In the face of his father's bitter opposition to the match, the Prince was quoted: "I love her and want to marry her. Let Juan have the throne...
...spot for a hot double-quick trumpet solo. Big William Brand may be seized with a desire to slap his double-bass, almost steal the percussion away from Drummer Sonny Greer. Duke Ellington lets all his players have their say but listens particularly to the shrewd advice of pale Cuban Juan Tizol, his valve trombonist...