Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here was news, news that all Cuban newspapers could print without fear, and they spread themselves with pictures, columns of text and descriptions of the inquest of the shark-killed boatman. Miss Harding flew for Hollywood, heavily veiled, after providing a $25-a-month pension for the boatman's widow. Only briefest mention was given another ship far more important to every Cuban, the United Fruit liner Peten carrying lean young Benjamin Sumner Welles from "New York to his post as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
...attempted to steal a bicycle, ducked round a corner when he was seen. It was a stupid move for round that corner was the wall of Principe Fortress, on the wall was a prison guard with a rifle in his hand and nothing to do. The reaction of a Cuban guard to a running Negro is precisely that of a British sportsman to a rocketing pheasant. He killed him with a single shot...
...many months too many men have died in just such ways for Cubans to be particularly incensed at these new assassinations. The one thought in every Cuban mind was: what was the United States going to do? What orders had been given long-headed young Sumner Welles...
...greatly surprised to read that Cuba is among the countries whose governments have paid the doctors' expenses. You had a very poor information and I wish you to please make clear that I myself covered all my expenses and I can assure you that no one of the Cuban's doctors received a single penny from the government, and that we were not representing the government. We were there working for the people's sake and by our own personal efforts...
...WANTS BUT LITTLE-Wilson Wright-Boni ($2). This novel about present-day Cuba treads delicately among the thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor...