Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five little white girls between four and eight years old disappeared from Cuban farms near Havana last week. They had no possible interest in upholding or opposing the Machado government. Havana police sprang to action. In a deserted barn near Caimito, 22 mi. from the capital, the children's dismembered bodies were found. In that barn the police also found a crude altar of stones and seashells, a hideous statue of the Goddess Chango, and 28 half-crazed Negroes, two of them with bloody robes and blunt stone axes. The most intelligible of the prisoners, one Jose Delgado, described...
Festooned with trivial amendments from both House and Senate, an important bill went back to President Machado for signature last week. It provided a two-year moratorium (until July 1, 1935) for principal and interest payments on bonds or mortgages of Cuban public services, railroads, sugar mills, farms and other real estate. More important was another bill passed by Parliament empowering President Machado to default any part of Cuba's foreign debt, $15,000,000 of which must be paid by June...
...this caused vast activity in Miami where U. S. householders and Cuban exiles were busily cultivating their respective plots. Political exiles from the Machado regime have gravitated to four cities: New York, Miami, Tampa and Merida in Yucatan. Most important of these groups is in Miami, for here in a comfortable, unpretentious little house in residential...
More than 1,000 exiles are now living in Miami in quarters ranging from the gardened cottages of Grove Park to the four Campos or barracks that the less fortunate have taken over in different parts of the city. Campo No.1, in downtown Miami, bears a huge sign: CUBAN EXILES, and at the entrance to its living quarters an unarmed but husky sentry is always on guard. Among the Exiles are representatives of a half dozen different parties joined for the most part by nothing stronger than a common hatred of President Machado. To work more effectively they met fortnight...
...Doctors at Dallas chose Dec. 3 as the "memorial day for Pan-American medicine." Dec. 3 is the birthday of the late Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban, who indicted the mosquito which Dr. Walter Reed later proved transmitted yellow fever...