Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuba's croupiers made notes on their calendars last week. Harbinger of the tourist season was a Government announcement that gambling at the Gran Casino Nacional will start December 29. horse-racing at Oriental Park January 21. The open season for Cuban assassinations was meanwhile in full swing...
...hand, automatic Cellophane wrappers will handle 1,000 cigars for 90? against the $4 manual cost in Cuba. The ancient custom of each operator taking six cigars a day gratis will be abandoned and Trenton's girlworkers will hear a piano instead of the "reader" who entertains all Cuban cigarmakers with stories and political discussions, often...
Rubens soon proved his usefulness to the Cuban exiles as a lawyer and was made General Counsel and utility man to the "Cuban Junta." In 1895 Gómez and Marí'i landed in Cuba for the final struggle. Martí was soon killed in a skirmish, but Gómez joined forces with Macéo and spread revolt over the whole island. Meantime the Junta in the U. S. had the job of keeping the Cuban "army" supplied with guns and ammunition. Rubens became an expert organizer of filibustering expedi tions, an equally expert defense lawyer for arrested...
Rubens, not an eye-witness of the Cuban fighting, gives a full, extremely pro-Cuban account of it, compares it favorably with the U. S. War of Independence. According to his figures, the Spanish army finally numbered 200,000 regulars, but it could never come to grips with the ragged, badly-armed Cuban guerrillas, whose policy was never to fight a decisive battle but to wear down the enemy. General Gomez once stated his plan of campaign for the rainy season: "I am going to make the Spanish columns move, move constantly; and I count upon my three important allies...
Cuba-loving Author Rubens carries his story through the U. S. war with Spain, through the U. S. military government of Cuba, and closes with a rhetorical description of the Cuban flag rising slowly over Morro Castle. As in a well-behaved cinema, nothing is supposed to follow the supposedly happy...