Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just," my dear director "be just"-don't attack only the actual Cuban government and publish all those horrors, that I assure you are augmented, as you have augmented the age of dear Miguel Mariano Gomez, making him a warrior of the '95 war! (Then he must have been-if he existed-a feeding baby!) By that scale you may see the augmentation of all this. Tropical temperament is very appassionate and in both ways they do politics with ardour. Do you know that actual oppositionists to government use to blow off with bombs concealed in automobiles...
What part Ambassador Welles had had in this was hidden last week by his customary public silence. But behind the scenes he was active. He called on Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara. Ten minutes after he arrived, word went out to the government censors, who edit all Cuban newspapers, to suppress all mention of the call. One enthusiastic censor forbade all future mention of Mr. Welles. Next day Mr. Welles had luncheon with Machado and the man Machado had just made his Secretary of War & Marine: General Alberto Herrera. As Secretary of State Ferrara sailed for London at the head...
...planes to scouting the coast every night, two gunboats to keep more rebels from landing. He started with 100 men, a crew of officers he had picked himself. Machado sent him 300 more men. He had carte blanche to do what he liked. The Government issued no reports but Cubans needed none to know how Ortiz would operate. Than he, no man in Cuba is more famed for murder. Half Negro, he is a big, bull-shouldered man with a plump, cheerful face, small, shadowed eyes. As military supervisor in Oriente Province in 1930, he was accused of 44 political...
Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...
...Havana, learned to box by studying cinemas of Panama Joe Gans. Equipped with 365 suits, $65,000 in Havana real estate and a magnificent fighting brain so single-tracked that it so far contains only a few dozen English words, Kid Chocolate makes himself a nuisance to his indulgent Cuban manager, Luis Gutierrez, by misbehaving instead of training. After a month's rest, Champion Chocolate will go abroad for four bouts, one of them a return match against Seaman Watson in London...