Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Lawyer Horatio Seymour Rubens, who in 1893 had a smooth, fat face, a wispy mustache and a confident manner for his 24 years, had not been merely a footballer at C. C. N. Y. He had also made friends with a Cuban classmate, one Gonzalo de Quesada. When Quesada introduced him to Jose Julian Marti, known as "the Master" to U. S.-exiled Cuban revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain...
Club members pay monthly dues of from $1 to $3.50. For $1 an individual member is assured full medical attention. The $3.50 takes care of an entire family. There are two great divisions among the clubs?the Spanish and the Cuban. The Cuban are strictly mutual benefit societies, admit only those who cannot afford to pay for private attention. The Spanish clubs maintain great social halls and schools. They resemble U. S. fraternal societies like the Moose...
Last week the medical men decided altogether too many club members were applying for sick benefits. They dared not denounce the club insurance system which has become a vested interest in Cuban affairs. But club members might be challenged with little risk of reprisal. Every member, declared the doctors, who can afford to do so should make private calls on his physician and not sponge on the clinics...
...Spanish clubs demurred. Dr. Ricardo Nunez Portuondo, president of the Cuban Medical Delegation, pleaded in vain. Last week 500 doctors went on strike against the Spanish club clinics. Minister of the Interior Octavio Zubizarreta ordered doctors employed by the Department of Health to man the practically deserted clinics...
...Albert Coates: the highbrow Second Rhapsody, in which the metropolis is typified by insistent rivet-noises; and a new Rumba which George Gershwin completed last month. He got the idea last February in a low street in Havana called La Frita. The Rumba is a "symphonic overture" based on Cuban themes, for full orchestra plus bongo (tom-tom), maracas (rattle), gourd and sticks. At its first hearing it seemed lengthy, sometimes dull; but were it tightened up it might well compete with Ravel's Bolero, a work more shrewdly conceived but of considerably less musical interest...